Engineering Internships, Cockroach Labs
2025
The anticipated base salary range for U.S. candidates for this role is USD $8,250 to $8,750 per month
More information about location
3 days a week in office
Cloud-native, distributed SQL database
Open for applications
Cloud-native, distributed SQL database
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
The anticipated base salary range for U.S. candidates for this role is USD $8,250 to $8,750 per month
More information about location
3 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Cockroach Labs' mission is to make data easy by providing an industry-leading model for resilience, horizontal scalability to accommodate fast-growing businesses, and the ability to move data close to business' customers, wherever they reside across the globe.
Role
Who you are
- Are pursuing studies in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field graduating between December 2025-December 2027
- Have had exposure to coursework on subjects like distributed systems, concurrency control, data replication, file systems, or SQL processing
- Are comfortable using programming languages like Go, C/C++, Java, and Python. We primarily use Go but if you're not familiar with it, you'll learn them while you're here
- Love building relationships with your colleagues and enjoy being part of the code review process and partnering with your teammates on challenging problems
- Have past experience working on production-level code
- Are genuinely interested in Cockroach Labs's mission and are excited to use CockroachDB in your projects
What the job involves
- Design, code, and test the backend of our distributed, open source database CockroachDB
- Be matched to a team based on your interests, and complete a project related to your focus area that is shared with the entire Engineering organization
- Work closely with other engineers and product managers across our the cloud and database teams
- Take part in a collaborative culture and exchange knowledge with a highly experienced technical organization
- Ensure that CockroachDB remains scalable, survivable, and consistent as we continue to grow as a company
- Meet regularly with your Mentor and Manager to get feedback and continue refining your skills
- A huge bonus is that even after your experience at Cockroach Labs ends, your code will live on in our open source GitHub repo, CockroachDB
- In your first 30 days, you will become an integrated member of our engineering team
- During this time, you will work on a starter project that allows you to gain confidence in navigating the code base and begin to understand our engineering environment
- We believe that it's important for you to take this first month to become familiar with our technology and our company
- For the next 8-12 weeks, you will make meaningful contributions to our codebase
- After wrapping up your starter project, you will work with your manager to focus your efforts on a project that aligns with your interests and the product roadmap
- The cohort will close out with our Intern Presentations, where each intern has the opportunity to showcase the work they've done to the entire Engineering organization
Application process
- Our interview process consists largely of programming in a real environment, and we'll be evaluating you on the skills listed above
Our take
Cockroach Labs was founded by a team of ex-Google employees who wanted to build a database management system similar to Google’s Spanner. The result is CockroachDB, an open-source distributed SQL database. It offers local or global scaling with familiar SQL, failproof fault tolerance, and guaranteed transaction consistency, and can be deployed across any cloud.
Maintaining full SQL compliance with global cloud capabilities will help Cockroach Labs take advantage of the wave of companies needing to scale their existing SQL databases onto the cloud. Cockroach Labs grew from a $2 billion valuation to $5 billion in under a year, proving itself as an enticing and approachable prospect in this developing sector.
It already commands a high-end raft of clients including Comcast, Bose, and Baidu - but competition is stiff, particularly with industry giants like Oracle and AWS. Its hope is that CockroachDB’s high failure tolerance and geo-distribution will provide attractively swift functionality whilst allowing customers to remain within their legal jurisdictions - and will prove pivotal in 5G use cases. Its success to date, targeted updates to ease network migrations, and its recent expansion into EMEA markets, suggest it has a strong shot.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Dec 2021
$278m
SERIES F
Jan 2021
$160m
SERIES E
Total funding: $633.2m
Company benefits
- Employee referral bonus + donation match
- Connect and Contribute days
- Flexible Working
- Spring Health and an Employee Assistance Program to provide free counseling and support mental health
- $2500 annually to support learning and development through workshops, conferences, and networking events
- We dedicate company time to bond over everything from trivia and karaoke to paint-alongs and fitness classes
- Flexible Time Off
- 100% health insurance coverage & One Medical membership
- Gym discounts & free Citibike membership
- FSA
- 401(k)
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave & $500 in baby bucks
- Relocation Support
Company values
- Commit to Excellence
- Respect Each Other
- Establish Balance
- Communicate Openly & Honestly
Company HQ
Chelsea, New York, NY
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Leadership
Spencer Kimball
(Co-founder & CEO)Worked at WeGo Systems as CTO for 3 years before joining Google as a Software Engineer for almost 10 years. Also, previous CTO of Viewfinder and Engineer at Square.
Peter Matiss
(CTO)Previously Software Engineer at Square, Co-Founder at Viewfinder and Software Engineer at Google.
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