Staff Software Engineer role leading the design, development, and evolution of networking software for Teradata's massively parallel processing (MPP) platform. Responsibilities include architecting scalable and fault-tolerant networking software for high-speed, low-latency interconnects, evaluating emerging technologies (DPUs, accelerators, interconnect fabrics), leading complex debugging and root-cause analysis across hardware/firmware/OS/networking layers, and mentoring engineers. Required expertise: HPC and distributed systems development, Linux kernel and driver development in C, InfiniBand and Ethernet networking with RDMA/RoCE, TCP/IP and UDP networking, packet-level analysis tools, high-throughput low-latency protocol design, and proficiency in C, Bash, and Python.