Job description
Category-defining tech. Career-defining work.
Lots of tech companies disrupt. But, many fail when they try to scale. We’re different. CockroachDB makes it easier for companies to build and scale apps. This is how and why we’re helping some of the most innovative companies on the planet. We tackle problems head-on and focus on solutions that create lasting impact.
Because when our customers win, we all win.
The Role
At Cockroach Labs, we strive to deliver a delightful experience to our customers starting from their first interaction with our database. Creating such experiences that make data easy and painless is paramount to our mission. In particular, we are looking for a senior software engineer to help lead the critical initiative of creating an effortless, seamless customer journey from other database solutions to CockroachDB and our cloud offerings.
In this role, you will create one of the first touch points new customers will have with CockroachDB, giving you a front-row seat to our rapid growth. If you bring your expertise and commitment to excellence, we’ll team you up with other talented engineers, SREs, and our product and design teams, as we work together to give developers a platform for their data. You will also have the opportunity to make a significant internal impact by helping establish the culture and practices for engineering at Cockroach Labs.
You Will
- Contribute to the growth of CockroachDB by bringing your expertise and commitment to excellence to help build database migration tooling that makes it easy for everyone to migrate to CockroachDB.
- Develop in Go, but if you don’t know it, you’ll learn while you’re here.
- Work closely with other engineers and product managers across both the cloud and database teams.
- 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 solutions to help make migrations easier
The Expectations
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 your 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.
As our team grows you will have the opportunity to shape the direction of development of the migration tooling for CockroachDB. We want to eliminate the headaches of database migrations for our users and you play a crucial role in making CockroachDB the easiest database migration target. We also offer technical training and experienced mentorship to help you learn and grow into whatever you wish it to be.
You Have
- 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 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 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.
The Team
Jeremy Yang - Manager, Engineering
Jeremy joined Cockroach Labs in 2022 as one of the founding engineers on the Migrations team. He has helped build the existing suite of MOLT tooling for migrations and has helped shape the migrations landscape here at Cockroach Labs. In his free time, Jeremy is an active endurance athlete participating in marathons and Ironmans but also enjoys more relaxing activities such as cooking new recipes at home or trying new restaurants.
Jordan Lewis - VP of Engineering
Jordan is the Head of Engineering for Cockroach Labs. He’s responsible for the teams that build, maintain and keep CockroachDB reliably serving the needs of Cockroach Labs’ most demanding customer base. He joined Cockroach Labs as a Database Engineer in 2016 when it was just 25 people before moving into engineering leadership leading the Global Engineering organization. Jordan lives in his hometown of Brooklyn NY with his wife. Outside of work he enjoys folk music and riding his electric scooter around town.
Cockroach Labs is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer building a diverse and inclusive workforce. If you need additional accommodations to feel comfortable during your interview process, please email us at [email protected].
Cockroach Labs has a hybrid work model, with Roachers that are local to one of our offices coming in on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays and working flexibly the rest of the week. While we’ve learned valuable lessons working remotely, nothing can replace the connection, creativity, and fun that occurs when Roachers get together and we are committed to fostering a workplace that encourages collaboration and allows us all to do our best work.
Benefits
- Stock Options
- Medical Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Life and Disability Insurance
- Professional Development Funds
- Flexible Time Off
- Paid Holidays
- Paid Sick Days
- Paid Parental Leave
- Retirement Benefits
- Mental Wellbeing Benefits
- And more!
