Sr Staff Software Engineer at Teradata
Nashville, TN
$156,400–$234,700from the description
Jul 15, 2026
Nashville, TN
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor and technical lead role focused on designing, implementing, and testing features for a massively parallel SQL query engine, including an LLVM-based parsing component. The work spans query optimization, competitive analysis of database systems, and performance debugging in parallel and cloud environments. Suited to a seasoned C/C++ engineer with deep database internals knowledge and experience guiding other engineers through complex, large-scale feature development.
Senior level · 10+ years · Remote · Bachelor's required · Full-time
Advertised as Staff, but the requirements read as Senior.
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 14 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 2,550 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 1,050–3,800
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The title 'Sr. Staff Software Engineer' is advertised as Staff-level, but the actual requirements — 10+ years of experience, technical leadership of a feature team, and no evidence of org-wide or cross-org architectural authority — are consistent with a Senior individual contributor. Seniority is assessed as Senior accordingly.
The compensation range shows three figures (156,400 / 195,600 / 234,700 annually), likely representing geographic or level tiers; min and max of the full range are captured.
The degree requirement is a minimum Bachelor's with 10+ years; a Master's (8+ yrs) or Ph.D. (5+ yrs) are accepted alternatives — Bachelor's is the minimum hard gate.
R is listed alongside C/C++, Java, Python, and SQL in the required qualifications section; it is included as a hard gate despite being an unusual pairing for a database engine role.
LLVM is explicitly called out as a required design/implementation responsibility ('Design, implement, and maintain the LLVM-based query Parsing Engine'), so it is treated as a hard gate.
Open source experience, Agile methodology familiarity, and Assembly-level debugging appear under the 'What You'll Bring' section, which reads as aspirational/preferred rather than a hard gate — listed under a secondary heading distinct from the 'What Makes You a Qualified Candidate' requirements block.
'query optimization' and 'distributed systems' are retained as skills here because the JD gates on specific domain expertise ('query processing and optimization', 'large-scale, elastic, and highly available cloud database services or distributed systems') that is not reducible to a single named tool.
This posting reads as a fully-remote role, so it was scored against the national candidate pool rather than a single metro.
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