Software Engineer, Cockroach Labs
Test Infrastructure
$133-176k
+ Stock Options
Cloud-native, distributed SQL database
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Cloud-native, distributed SQL database
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$133-176k
+ Stock Options
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
- 3+ years of experience as a software engineer writing clean, idiomatic code
- 1+ years of hands-on experience with GCP or AWS
- Experience with one of the following: Automation Frameworks/Testing, Cloud Infrastructure, Continuous Integration, Static analysis
- Exceptional communication skills and a collaborative mindset
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- The ideal candidate will have worked with massively complex codebases and possesses broad experience in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and automated testing
What the job involves
- Test Engineering is expanding our investment in next-generation test automation and bug-finding techniques, utilizing both randomized and deterministic testing
- Note that this is not a QA/manual testing role; all Cockroach Labs engineers write tests and obsess about quality
- Test Engineering is a cross-functional team that aims to enable and strengthen the engineering organization by emphasizing correctness and performance testing
- The work encompasses three primary focus areas: Test Infrastructure, Exploratory Testing, and Performance and Scalability
- Speaking broadly, Test Infrastructure enables automated test execution, detection of performance regressions, fuzzing, and much more
- Exploratory Testing enables new bug-finding techniques such as static and dynamic analysis, metamorphic testing, failure injection, and others
- Reporting to Stan Rosenberg - Director of Engineering
- Performance and Scalability enables at-scale benchmarking
- Develop test strategies and methodologies
- Build and scale test infrastructure
- Build tools and frameworks to find bugs in complex distributed systems
- Build static and dynamic analyzers
- Perform at-scale cloud benchmarking
- Prioritize and execute test suites that are representative of customers’ workloads
- Some examples of recent and future projects:
- Mixed version framework utilizing roachtest and roachprod
- Failure injection testing (e.g., chaos-mesh, frisbee)
- Next generation of roachtest and roachperf
- Parallelized automated microbenchmarks via roachprod-bench
- Developing a static analysis framework for concurrency bugs
- Large-scale benchmarking and performance testing
- Automated flaky test detection and quarantining
- In your first 30 days, you will become an integrated member of our engineering team
- You’ll become familiar with our production systems, software development workflows, and the architectures of CockroachDB and CockroachDB Cloud
- We believe that it’s essential for you to take the first month to get to know our technology and our company
- You’ll work on a “starter project” to help you learn about a particular area and start to get the lay of the land
- After your first month, you will align with the team’s development objectives and own a medium-sized project to completion
- By the end of the third month, you will be a fully contributing member of the Test Engineering team
- You will also have developed enough familiarity with our engineering processes to propose and scope future projects
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
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
- 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 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
(CTO)Previously Software Engineer at Square, Co-Founder at Viewfinder and Software Engineer at Google.
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