Backend Software Engineer, Cockroach Labs
New Grad, Migrations
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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
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
- A passion for working on complex technical products and have had exposure to topics such as distributed systems, data replication, concurrency control, file systems, or SQL processing
- Comfort using programming languages like Go, C/C++, Java, and Python
- An understanding of system design
- Experience using one or more database technologies (e.g. MySQL, Postgres, Oracle, SQL Server, Db2, etc)
- Experience building collaborative relationships with your colleagues. You enjoy being part of the code review process and partnering with your teammates on challenging problems
- Relevant internship experience (preferred)
- A BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
What the job involves
- In this role, you will create one of the first touchpoints new customers will have with CockroachDB, giving you a front-row seat to our rapid growth
- If you bring your expertise and commitment to excellence, we’ll team you up with other talented engineers, SREs, and our product and design teams, as we work together to give developers a platform for their data
- You will also have the opportunity to make a significant internal impact by helping establish the culture and practices for engineering at Cockroach Labs
- Contribute to the growth of CockroachDB by bringing your expertise and commitment to excellence to help build database migration tooling that makes it easy for everyone to migrate to CockroachDB
- Develop in Go, but if you don't know it, you'll learn while you're here
- Work closely with other engineers and product managers across both the cloud and database teams
- Take part in a collaborative culture and exchange knowledge with a highly experienced technical organization
- You will have the opportunity to report to a member of our engineering leadership team based on the project you work on at Cockroach Labs
- In the first month you will join your engineering team and start to learn about our production systems, software development workflow, the architecture of CockroachDB, and how our users interact with our offerings
- After 3 months you'll be a fully-fledged member of your team and comfortable contributing to CockroachDB’s migration tooling ecosystem
- You will begin to determine pain points of the customer migration experience and work with your manager to focus your efforts on projects that align with those areas and our goals
- As our team grows you will have the opportunity to shape the direction of development of the migration tooling for CockroachDB
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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