Member of Technical Staff, Cockroach Labs
Performance Engineering
$180-238.1k
3 days a week in office
Distributed SQL for always-on customer experiences
Be an early applicant
Distributed SQL for always-on customer experiences
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$180-238.1k
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
- Desired experience level ranges from mid to staff level. At a minimum, this role requires:
- 5+ years of experience as a performance engineer
- 5+ years of experience as a software engineer writing clean, idiomatic code
- 1+ years of hands on experience with GCP, AWS, or Azure
- Exceptional communication (oral and written) skills and a collaborative mindset
- MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
What the job involves
- We are hiring performance engineers to expand our ongoing investment in performance and efficiency
- As a performance engineer, you will pair up with engineers to tackle all aspects of evaluating database performance under a wide spectrum of workloads and configurations
- The work encompasses: measuring and defining performance baselines, guiding other teams, performing root cause analysis across the entire stack, performing competitive benchmarking, building new workloads, and more
- You will have a large impact on shaping the performance of the database
- This is a high-impact team, which owns database performance end-to-end
- The team is situated on a critical path, connecting (all of) Engineering, Product and Marketing
- As an ideal candidate, you will have worked with massively complex codebases and possess broad experience in databases, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, as well as deep experience in performance analysis and benchmarking
- You are passionate about benchmarking, and you have read Always measure one level deeper several times throughout your career
- You are an intuitive communicator and author and can adapt your writing to any target audience
- Increase our performance coverage and understanding of CockroachDB
- Develop new workload strategies and methodologies
- Investigate performance issues
- Perform competitive benchmarks
- Guide other teams on benchmarking and performance testing methodologies
- Build automation tools and frameworks
- Translate customers’ workloads to automated performance tests
- The Expectations:
- In your first 30 days, you will become an integrated member of our performance engineering team. You’ll become familiar with our production systems, software development workflows, and architecture of CockroachDB. We believe that it’s essential for you to take the first month to get to know our technology and our company. You’ll be given 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 you will own and complete a medium-sized starter project. By the end of the starter project , you will be a fully-contributing member of the Performance Engineering team. You will also have developed enough familiarity with our engineering processes to propose, scope and own future projects
- The Team:
- Reporting to Stan Rosenberg - Director of Engineering:
- Stan is an experienced engineering leader, having built and scaled high-performing engineering teams and distributed systems at high-tech startups. Prior, he worked as a software engineer and a researcher in formal methods. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stevens Institute of Technology. In his free time, he enjoys exploring outdoors while dreaming about days when software works as reliably as a bridge
- BabuSrithar - Sr. Director, Engineering:
- BabuSrithar is passionate about building high-quality software products and lean teams by leveraging everyone's potential. He enjoys working with people and learning along the way. Before joining Cockroach Labs, BabuSrithar held senior leadership positions at companies like Nutanix, Clumio and recently he was VP of engineering at Apty where he led the engineering globally. When not at work, he enjoys his time with his 3-year-old and family
- Isaac Wong - EVP, Research & Development:
- Isaac is responsible for the health of the engineering organization at Cockroach Labs. He partners closely with teams to ensure we have a balanced culture that promotes quality and innovation in pursuit of our goals. Before joining Cockroach Labs Isaac was in life sciences for 16 years with Medidata Solutions where he had a front row seat on the exciting ride from a 30 person startup to more than 2000 people worldwide. But the lure of distributed, resilient, and consistent SQL databases, along with the amazing technology and culture at Cockroach Labs proved too much. When not working he likes to draw, play the piano, and search NYC for cannolis with his wife and kids
Application process
- This position will remain posted until filled
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 engineered for exactly that. 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.
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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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