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
Distributed SQL for always-on customer experiences
Job no longer available
Distributed SQL for always-on customer experiences
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
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
To simplify how businesses build and operate world-changing applications.
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 that delivers familiar SQL, strong consistency, and near-indestructible fault tolerance. Designed to scale locally or globally and deployed on any cloud or on-prem setup, it keeps mission-critical applications running even through hardware failures or full data-center outages.
A major milestone in the company's growth is its partnership with IBM ,which integrates CockroachBD into IBM's hybrid infrastructure. This makes it far easier for long-standing mainframe users to modernize without rewriting massive amounts of code. Running CockroachDB on systems like LinuxONE, Linux on Z, Power Systems, and Red Hat OpenShift helps organizations adopt cloud-native architectures while staying in environments they trust. At the same time, enterprise demand is surging and the company is boasting significant year-on-year growth in new customers, ARR, and cloud adoption.
As applications become more global, always-on, and increasingly AI-driven, businesses need databases built for scale, resilience, and zero downtime. And CockroachDB was engienered for exaclt ythat. With a decade of innovation, expanding enterprise traction, and a leadership team experienced in scaling high-growth tech companies, Cockroach Labs is set to power the next generation of mission-critical applications.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Dec 2021
$278m
SERIES F
Jan 2021
$160m
SERIES E
Total funding: $633.2m
Company benefits
- Competitive Health Insurance Coverage
- Paid Parental Leave
- Flexible PTO
- Learning & Development
- Relocation Support
- Employee Referral Bonus
Company HQ
Chelsea, New York, NY
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
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously a Software Engineer at Square, Co-Founder at Viewfinder and a Software Engineer at Google.
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