Senior Staff Engineer, AI-Native Agent Services

Teradata; California; On-site; USD 190,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

Teradata is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to own the design and delivery of core Agent Services—Agent Memory, LLM Cache, and Semantic Context Layer—from spec to production launch.

You will write the specs, build against them, and ensure production readiness. You will lead cross-functional technical efforts, balance long-term health with shipping, and mentor others in Postgres internals and distributed systems as part of a high-impact AI data platform.

Qualifications

• 10+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems, databases, or cloud data infrastructure in production (emphasis on reliability).
• Solid knowledge of PostgreSQL: MVCC, WAL, vacuuming, replication, and extension model.

Responsibilities

• Own the design and delivery of core Agent Services: Agent Memory, LLM Cache, Semantic Context Layer, from design to production launch.
• Write specs, build against them, and maintain accountability in production.
• Lead critical cross-functional technical efforts and drive consensus.
• Identify design or roadmap gaps before they become incidents.
• Balance long-term health with shipping and document architectural trade-offs.
• Define SLOs, instrument critical paths, write runbooks, and meet durability/availability/performance commitments.
• Set technical standards in code/design reviews and on-call.
• Mentor engineers on Postgres internals and distributed systems.

Skills

PostgreSQL

Distributed systems

C/C++

Go

Python

Ruby

Cloud platforms

System architecture

Cross-team collaboration

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Git

Linux

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL extensions

Job description

Teradata is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to own the design and delivery of core Agent Services—Agent Memory, LLM Cache, and Semantic Context Layer—from spec to production launch.

You will write the specs, build against them, and ensure production readiness. You will lead cross-functional technical efforts, balance long-term health with shipping, and mentor others in Postgres internals and distributed systems as part of a high-impact AI data platform.