Backend Software Engineer, Cockroach Labs
Cloud Platform
$154-200k
+ Stock Options
More information about location
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
$154-200k
+ 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
- Expertise with at least one cloud provider such as AWS, Azure, or GCP and Cloud APIs
- Expertise in analyzing, monitoring, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
- Experience managing large projects/initiatives to completion on your own
- Experience in software development using one or more of the following: Go, C, C++, Python, Java
- Experience running Kubernetes clusters in a production environment
- Familiarity with infrastructure tooling such as Terraform or Pulumi
- Proficiency in working with algorithms, data structures, and production troubleshooting
- Debugged and optimized code to automate routine tasks
- A working knowledge of web and network protocols and standards (HTTP, TLS, DNS, etc)
- Previous on-call experience
- Experience building collaborative relationships with your colleagues
- You enjoy being part of the code review process, partnering with your teammates on complex problems, and mentoring less senior engineers
- Ideally 5+ years of professional experience and a degree in CS or related field
What the job involves
- CockroachDB is the backbone of storing global services
- As an Engineer on the Cloud Platform team, you will help manage and scale our CockroachDB Cloud services and infrastructure, which span multiple cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, and GCP
- You will oversee our production systems, spending time developing systems, tooling, and infrastructure that ensures stable and scalable infrastructure - and the reliability and quality of our cloud offerings - as we deliver CockroachDB to our customers
- In this role, you will collaborate across multiple teams building CockroachDB’s cloud offerings and the development and product teams working on the actual database
- Our team is enabling key features of running on CockroachDB Cloud, such as multi-region deployments, customer managed encryption keys and elastic scaling
- The platform is deployed globally and will push the limits of the services cloud vendors provide today
- Design, build, and maintain our internal and customer facing systems with Cockroach Cloud
- Design, write, and deliver software and systems that increase product reliability and operational efficiency
- Develop custom tools as necessary
- Keep a complex system running and solve problems relating to mission-critical services
- Design, implement, operate, and troubleshoot the automation and deployment of internal and production Kubernetes clusters to maximize performance and availability
- Participate in an on-call rotation for our production systems and hosted services
- In your first 30 days, you will onboard and gain exposure to our current internal and customer-facing production systems
- Working with our existing Cloud Platform and engineering teams, you will learn how our systems are built and deployed and help to manage aspects of our overall Cloud operations
- We believe that it's essential for you to take this first month to become familiar with our technology and our company
- After three months, you'll be integrated fully into the team
- You will develop and own tooling for infrastructure, reliability, automation, and other issues related to CockroachDB Cloud’s stability and scalability
- You will identify new opportunities for automating processes, streamlining delivery, deploying new core functionality, and building great tools
- You will help make Cockroach Cloud the best platform to host CockroachDB on by bringing your expertise to our database product
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 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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