Fullstack Software Engineer, Cockroach Labs
Observability
+ Stock Options
Cloud-native, distributed SQL database
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Cloud-native, distributed SQL database
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
+ 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
- A passion for working on complex technical products
- Experience building modern web applications using programming languages like Go, C/C++, Java, JavaScript and Python
- Comfort implementing graphical user interfaces using technologies like React
- An understanding of system design, API design, and infrastructure such as Kubernetes, AWS/GCP/Azure
- Exposure to topics such as distributed systems, data processing pipelines, infrastructure around metrics, logs, and traces, and cloud observability technologies
- 2+ years of relevant experience
- Experience building collaborative relationships with your colleagues. You enjoy being part of the code review process and partnering with your teammates on challenging problems
- A BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
What the job involves
- We are looking for full-stack software engineers who are excited about empowering customers and internal users with capabilities to monitor and observe CockroachDB as part of our Observability team
- The Observability team is responsible for the end to end flow of observability data from the infrastructure within CockroachDB that exhausts raw data to the analysis, aggregation, and consumption of that data through user-facing console applications, various APIs, Cloud infrastructure, and several other tools
- Our work is critical in supporting troubleshooting journeys for our customers and colleagues
- Contribute to the growth of the open source database, CockroachDB. You bring your expertise and commitment to excellence to help build a database that makes data easy for everyone
- Enhance observability features on Cockroach Cloud, our fully managed CockroachDB offering
- Develop in Go and React/TypeScript, but if you don't know them you'll learn while you're here
- Work closely with other engineers and product managers across our cloud and database teams
- Help foster a collaborative culture and exchange knowledge with a highly experienced technical organization
- Ensure that CockroachDB remains scalable, survivable, and consistent as we continue to grow as a company
- In the first month you will join your engineering team and start to learn about our production systems, software development workflow, and the architecture of CockroachDB and CockroachCloud
- We believe that it's essential for you to take this first month to become familiar with our technology, company, and our culture
- After 3 months you'll be a fully-fledged member of your team and comfortable contributing to CockroachDB
- You will begin to determine the parts of our product that most interest you and work with your manager to focus your efforts on projects that align with your interests and our goals
- As our team grows you will have the opportunity to shape the direction of development for CockroachCloud and CockroachDB
- We want our users to have a phenomenal experience using our product and you play a crucial role in making CockroachDB a joy to use
- We also offer technical training and experienced mentorship to help you learn and grow
- 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 addition, you will get to work closely with the senior leadership including:
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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