Cloud Control Plane Engineer

Cloud Control Plane Engineer

At Teradata, we believe that people thrive when empowered with better information. Teradata's Autonomous Knowledge Platform activates enterprise intelligence by unifying data, knowledge, and business context to achieve tangible outcomes. With Teradata, organizations can provide agents with full context for impact when it matters. Our solution lets businesses connect and scale on premises, in the cloud, or through a hybrid approach.

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Join a small advanced research team within the Office of the Chief Technology Officer focused on shaping the next generation of Teradata's platform.

This role centers on the control layer — how systems are orchestrated, coordinated, and exposed. You'll design and build services that manage lifecycle, define system behavior, and provide the interfaces through which infrastructure is controlled and consumed.

Working in a greenfield environment, you'll help define how the control plane operates — from provisioning and scaling to secure exposure. These systems are intended to support highly scalable workloads and evolve into customer‑facing capabilities.

You'll be working in areas where scale introduces new constraints, and system behavior under coordination and change is as important as correctness.

You'll operate with significant ownership, using AI‑assisted tools to explore and implement designs quickly while ensuring coherence and reliability.

• Design and build control plane systems responsible for lifecycle management, orchestration, and coordination of distributed infrastructure.
• Define how infrastructure is provisioned, scaled, and managed through APIs and service‑based interfaces.
• Shape system behavior around scaling, availability, and multi‑environment operation.
• Design identity and access models, including integration patterns with systems such as OIDC, SAML, or similar frameworks.
• Build or extend control mechanisms such as controllers, coordination services, or workflow‑driven provisioning systems.
• Contribute to runtime‑driven provisioning and lifecycle workflows that respond to system demand.
• Use AI‑assisted tools to accelerate development and explore implementation approaches.
• Collaborate with infrastructure engineering to define clear boundaries between system layers.

You will work within a small, senior Advanced Research Team inside Teradata's Office of the CTO — where your contributions directly shape architecture and direction. You will collaborate with:

• Infrastructure engineers who build the compute layer below the control plane, working with you to define clean boundaries between system layers.
• Systems researchers and senior architects with deep expertise in distributed systems, platform design, and database internals who provide technical direction and mentorship.
• Peers who bring the same ownership mindset — a small team where architecture decisions have long‑term consequences and everyone's work is visible.

• Experience designing and building distributed systems, platform services, or control layers.
• Strong familiarity with Kubernetes and cloud‑native architectures.
• Experience designing APIs, service orchestration, and system coordination patterns.
• Understanding of identity, access, and security models in distributed systems (e.g., OIDC, SAML, or similar).
• Programming experience in a backend language (e.g., Go, Java, Python, or similar).
• Experience designing systems with scalability, reliability, and strong cost‑performance characteristics.
• Comfort working in environments where architecture and system boundaries are still being defined.

What sets you apart:

• You've built systems that other engineers or customers depend on to operate reliably at scale.
• You've designed coordination or control systems that manage complex infrastructure behavior.
• You understand system interactions beyond individual services.
• You're motivated by shaping platforms early where your decisions define long‑term behavior.
• AI‑assisted development fluency — you're comfortable using AI tools to explore designs, accelerate…