Site Reliability Engineer, Cockroach Labs
$165-225k
+ Stock Options
More information about location
Cloud-native, distributed SQL database
Open for applications
Cloud-native, distributed SQL database
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$165-225k
+ Stock Options
More information about location
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
- 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. 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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