Software Engineer, Cockroach Labs
Test Infrastructure
$115-160k
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
$115-160k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To simplify how businesses build and operate world-changing applications.
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, Test Design, Static analysis
- Current infrastructure uses GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Packer
- Exceptional communication skills and a collaborative mindset
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
What the job involves
- We are hiring software engineers for the Test Engineering team to expand our investment in next-generation test automation, bug finding, and performance scaling. Note that this is not a QA/testing role; every engineer at Cockroach Labs writes tests and obsesses about quality. The primary function of Test Engineering is to establish very high-quality standards
- Databases must keep going no matter what. We are software engineers on a mission to push our product to new frontiers. Our work has a broad-reaching impact on the engineering organization of over 100 engineers who rely on our tools and methodology to ship a top-notch quality product
- 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. Performance and Scalability enables at-scale benchmarking across all major cloud providers (e.g., see Cloud Report)
- Differential cluster testing (e.g., cassandra-diff, Snowtrail)
- Failure injection testing (e.g., chaos-mesh, frisbee)
- Next generation of roachtest and roachperf
- Probabilistic concurrency testing (e.g., shuttle, ThreadFuzzer)
- Developing a static analysis framework for concurrency bugs
- Developing a DSL for replaying complex workloads
- Large-scale benchmarking and performance testing
- Automated flaky test detection and quarantining
- The ideal candidate will have worked with massively complex codebases and possesses broad experience in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and automated testing
- Develop test strategies and methodologies
- Build and scale test infrastructure
- Build tools and frameworks
- Build static and dynamic analyzers
- Perform at-scale cloud benchmarking
- Prioritize and execute test suites that are representative of customers’ workloads
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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