Member of Technical Staff, Cockroach Labs
Storage
$185-200k
+ Stock Options
More information about location
3+ days a week in office
Distributed SQL for always-on customer experiences
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Distributed SQL for always-on customer experiences
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$185-200k
+ Stock Options
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
- Experience working on complex technical products and have exposure to distributed systems, concurrency control, file systems, data replication, or memory management
- 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 team interactions’ may impact it
- Experience (or strong interest) in adopting AI-centric development workflows
- 3+ years of relevant experience is ideal
- A BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- Bonus: Experience with storage systems (e.g., preferably Log-Structured Merge Trees, Pebble, etc.)
- Bonus: Experience building, running and debugging large-scale distributed systems in production
- Bonus: you want to play an active role in how we use AI to reduce toil and build high-quality software
What the job involves
- We're looking for a Software Engineer to join our Storage team. Storage is the team responsible for Pebble, CockroachDB’s storage engine
- Contribute to the growth of CockroachDB through bringing your expertise and commitment to excellence to help build a database that makes data easy for everyone
- Develop in Go, but if you don't know it, you'll learn while you're here
- Improve the performance of CockroachDB
- Work closely with other engineers and product managers across both the cloud and database teams
- Work in an environment in which access to state-of-the-art AI-assisted planning and development is provided
- Take part in 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 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 contributing to 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 fully integrated into the Storage team and have a deep understanding of the tech stack and other areas of the Engineering organization
- Reporting to Andy Xu - 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 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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