Frontend Engineering Tech Lead, Cockroach Labs
Console
$179-236.9k
+ 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
$179-236.9k
+ 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
- 8+ years of relevant experience, including architecture-level ownership and strategic impact
- Deep expertise in React, TypeScript, JavaScript, and modern web standards (HTML/CSS)
- Proven experience leading large-scale frontend infrastructure or design systems efforts across multiple teams
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to influence without authority
- Passion for building practical, user-friendly products
- A BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
What the job involves
- We are looking for an experienced frontend-focused Staff-level Product Engineer to help lead the technical direction of the CockroachDB Cloud Console team
- In this high-impact role, you will serve as a key architect and influencer of our frontend infrastructure, ensuring it scales with the growth of our product and engineering organization
- You'll have opportunities to lead critical initiatives that empower internal teams and end users alike through thoughtful design and infrastructure-level improvements
- Lead the frontend infrastructure vision for CockroachDB Cloud Console, identifying and addressing technical debt, guiding architecture evolution, and establishing long-term patterns that scale
- Partner cross-functionally with product managers, designers, tech leads, and engineers to drive product strategy and execution
- Champion frontend best practices and patterns that promote reusability, maintainability, and performance across teams
- Mentor and support engineers, promoting growth through technical guidance, design review, and knowledge-sharing
- Build and deliver features using React and Typescript, while shaping how we leverage modern frontend technologies, tools, and workflows
- Evaluate and introduce modern developer tooling, including AI-assisted development and internal platform abstractions
- Participate in architectural reviews, RFCs, and cross-team technical planning
- Advocate for the developer experience across all teams building on our shared frontend infrastructure
- In the first month, you will start to learn about our production systems, software development workflow, and the architecture of CockroachDB Cloud. We believe that it's essential for you to take this time to become familiar with our technology, company, and our culture
- Within three months, you'll be leading initiatives that span multiple teams, setting standards, and influencing technical roadmaps. Over time, your role will evolve to include greater strategic leadership, helping set direction for the Cloud Console's technical future while contributing meaningfully to the engineering culture at Cockroach Labs
- We want our users to have a phenomenal experience using our product. You play a crucial role in making CockroachDB Cloud a joy to use, and as our team grows, you will have the opportunity to shape the direction of development for CockroachDB Cloud. We also offer technical training and experienced mentorship to help you learn and advance your career into whatever you wish it to be
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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