Member of Technical Staff, Cockroach Labs
Migrations
$164-217.9k
Salary applicable for US candidates and may vary in further locations. + Stock Options
Distributed SQL for always-on customer experiences
Open for applications
Distributed SQL for always-on customer experiences
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$164-217.9k
Salary applicable for US candidates and may vary in further locations. + Stock Options
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To simplify how businesses build and operate world-changing applications.
Role
Who you are
- A passion for working on complex technical products and have had exposure to topics such as distributed systems, data replication, concurrency control, file systems, or SQL processing
- Comfort using programming languages like Go, C/C++, Java, and/or Python
- A strong understanding of system design for high throughput data systems
- Experience using one or more database technologies (e.g. MySQL, Postgres, Oracle, SQL Server, Db2, etc)
- Experience with or strong interest in applied AI, including working with agentic coding tools and workflows
- Experience building collaborative relationships with your colleagues. You enjoy being part of the code review process and partnering with your teammates on challenging problems
- 7+ years of relevant experience (preferred)
- A BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
What the job involves
- At Cockroach Labs, we strive to deliver a delightful experience to our customers starting from their first interaction with our database
- The Migrations team owns the full suite of MOLT (Migrate Off Legacy Technology) tooling that enables customers to seamlessly move their workloads from external databases to CockroachDB
- We are looking for a senior software engineer to join this team during a pivotal moment: the team's charter is expanding to leverage AI to radically simplify the migrations journey and to unify all of the MOLT tooling into a single, cohesive experience
- In this role, you will shape one of the first touchpoints new customers have with CockroachDB, giving you a front-row seat to our rapid growth
- You will contribute to both the core migration tooling and new AI-powered capabilities that will transform how customers migrate to CockroachDB
- Contribute to the growth of CockroachDB by building database migration tooling and AI-powered migration capabilities that make it easy for everyone to migrate to CockroachDB
- Help drive the team's expanded charter to apply agentic AI to the migrations journey — from experimentation and prototyping through to production-grade systems
- Contribute to unifying all MOLT tooling into a single, cohesive AI-powered migration experience for customers
- Develop in Go using agentic coding tools, but if you don't know Go, you'll learn while you're here
- Work closely with other engineers, product managers, and field engineering
- Take part in a collaborative culture and exchange knowledge with a highly experienced technical organization
- Learn about the different challenges of database migrations and create innovative solutions, including AI-driven approaches, to help achieve our goal of making migrations easier
- In the first month you will join your engineering team and start to learn about our production systems, software development workflow, the architecture of CockroachDB, and how our users interact with our offerings
- 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 the team and comfortable contributing to CockroachDB's migration tooling ecosystem
- You will begin to determine pain points of the customer migration experience and work with your manager to focus your efforts on projects that align with those areas and our goals, including exploring how AI can be applied to improve the migration journey
- As the team grows, you will have the opportunity to shape the direction of development of the migration tooling for CockroachDB, including defining how AI transforms the migration experience and helping unify the MOLT tooling into a seamless product
- We also offer technical training and experienced mentorship to help you learn and grow
- The Team:
- Adam Storm - Fellow, Engineering
- Rima Deodhar - Senior Manager, Engineering
- Jordan Lewis - VP of Engineering
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.
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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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