Site Reliability Engineer, Cockroach Labs
$165-225k
+ Stock Options
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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
$165-225k
+ Stock Options
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To simplify how businesses build and operate world-changing applications.
Role
Who you are
- Expertise in analyzing, monitoring, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
- Experience in software development using one or more of the following: Go, C, C++, Python, Java
- Proficiency working with algorithms, data structures, and production troubleshooting
- Expertise in working with major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.) and Cloud APIs
- Debugged and optimized code and to automate routine tasks
- Working knowledge of web and network protocols and standards (HTTP, TLS, DNS, etc.)
- Previous on-call experience, with a sense of urgency
- Experience building collaborative relationships with your colleagues. You enjoy being part of the code review process and partnering with your teammates on challenging problems
What the job involves
- CockroachDB provides the backbone of storing data on a global scale
- As a Site Reliability Engineer you’ll help manage and scale our CockroachCloud service, a fully managed offering of CockroachDB
- You will oversee our production system, ensuring that we can provide stable and scalable infrastructure as we deliver CockroachDB to our customers
- CockroachCloud is a global service spanning multiple cloud providers
- Roughly half of your time will be spent on greenfield development work, with an emphasis on developing tooling and driving automation
- In the role you will work across multiple teams within CockroachCloud as well as development and product teams working on CockroachDB
- Manage the infrastructure for cloud services, including running internal production systems and hosting CockroachDB for our external customers
- Design, write and deliver software and systems to increase product reliability and operational efficiency
- Develop custom tools as necessary
- Keep a complex system running and solve problems relating to mission-critical services
- Design, implement, operate, and troubleshoot the automation and monitoring of production clusters to maximize performance and availability
- Drive the company through disaster recovery tests, where we manually turn down pieces of CockroachDB to test its overall resilience to failures
- Participate in an on-call rotation for our production systems and hosted services
- In your first 30 days, you will onboard and be exposed to our current internal and customer-facing production systems
- Working with our existing SRE and engineering teams, you will pair on production operations and build out runbooks for the operation of different systems
- We believe that it's essential for you to take this first month to become familiar with our technology and our company
- After 3 months, you'll be fully integrated into the team
- You will develop and own tooling for reliability, automation, and other issues related to CockroachCloud’s stability and scalability
- You will identify new opportunities for automating processes, streamlining delivery, deploying new core functionality, and building great tools
- You will help make CockroachCloud the best platform to host CockroachDB on by bringing your expertise to our database
- Our core mission on the SRE team is to operate at scale a secure & reliable Cockroach Cloud product
- We are a group of software engineers first & foremost. We use software engineering as a means to achieve our mission; this is the SRE way. The SRE team is currently distributed across North America (6) and India (3)
- Reporting to Tom Schmidt - Sr. Manager, Engineering (Site Reliability Engineering)
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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