Engineering Manager, Cockroach Labs
Storage
$186-246k
+ 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
$186-246k
+ 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
- A passion for building relationships and are responsible for the welfare of the engineering team you manage, including their professional development and growth
- We're looking for managers that want to empower the team to achieve their professional and personal goals
- Experience working on complex technical products and have exposure to distributed systems, concurrency control, data replication, file systems, or SQL processing
- Comfort using programming languages like Go, C/C++, Java, and Python. We use Go, but if you don't know it, you'll learn while you're here
- A solid product architecture knowledge and grasp how a variety of teams interactions’ may impact it
- Been exposed to performance management, understanding the importance of building an effective team that can function independently, while collaborating and supporting each other
- Partnered across departments, ensuring coordination with internal teams (e.g., with Documentation; Marketing; Product)
What the job involves
- We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Storage team
- Storage is the team responsible for Pebble, CockroachDB’s storage engine
- Storage is the bedrock of our database product, and is responsible for the safe, durable and efficient persistence and retrieval of data, on top of which the rest of the database is built
- Our team develops and maintains Pebble, in addition to a number of Multi Version Concurrency Control (MVCC) APIs, iterator stack, and our Enterprise Encryption At Rest (EAR) feature in CockroachDB
- The team also has a hand in the development, operation and troubleshooting of our Cockroach Cloud product, as it relates to the various storage offerings of the cloud providers on top of which Cockroach Cloud runs
- Help engineers successfully navigate their day-to-day by providing them the resources they need, as well as access to individuals who can help them accomplish their goals at Cockroach Labs
- Partner closely with our engineering and product leadership to set the engineering roadmap for CockroachDB and our future products
- Collaborate with managers across teams to tackle people management challenges, but to also ensure the coordination of documentation, marketing, and product initiatives as we scale
- Coach and provide direct feedback to your team to guide personal development and growth beyond just technical skills. Managing performance and making sure that our engineers are achieving their goals is essential to retaining a high performing team of engineers
- Exemplify our core values of aim high and build to last, establish balance, be transparent about highs and lows, and respect. This is especially important as you begin to grow the team
- Be excited to bring your technical understanding and product architecture knowledge to Cockroach Labs and learn more about databases
- Enjoy being involved in tech talks, community meetups, conferences, and hackathons and encourage your team to participate in events that interest them. Your engagement helps to strengthen our open-source community and increase our presence in the tech community
- In your first 30 days, you will become an integrated member of our engineering team
- You’ll spend time learning about the Storage team’s domain, processes and people, as well as learning about CockroachDB and CockroachDB Cloud
- 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 will be fully integrated into the team and comfortable leading the Storage team’s execution in partnership with Product and Design
- You’ll have built an understanding of the Storage team’s tech stack and feel comfortable with the architecture and components the team develops and maintains
- You’ll understand the team’s priorities and roadmap
- After 6 months, you’ll be up to managing a team of 4-6 engineers and starting to grow the team yourself
- You will be making sure that each member of your team is working on projects that align with both our needs and their interests
- Reporting to Nick Travers - Senior Manager, 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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