[Remote] Cloud Control Plane Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Teradata is a company that empowers organizations with better information through its Autonomous Knowledge Platform. The Cloud Control Plane Engineer will join a research team to design and build services for managing infrastructure lifecycle and system behavior in a greenfield environment.
Responsibilities
- 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
Skills
- 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
- Background in big data, data pipelines, or analytical platforms — understanding the scale and volume of data the underlying engine processes helps you build the right abstractions
- Familiarity with query engine or analytical database architectures (DataFusion, Trino, Presto, Spark, or similar). The control plane problems are largely engine-agnostic, but awareness of what sits below is valuable
- Experience adapting or extending open-source control planes (Kubernetes operators, custom controllers, service mesh configurations) to meet non-standard requirements
- Experience with eBPF, kernel performance tuning, or NUMA-aware hardware configuration
Benefits
- We embrace a flexible work model because we trust our people to make decisions about how, when, and where they work.
- We focus on well-being because we care about our people and their ability to thrive both personally and professionally.
- We are an anti-racist company because our dedication to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is more than a statement — it is a deep commitment to doing the work to foster an equitable environment that celebrates people for all of who they are.
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