Backend Software Engineer, Cockroach Labs
KV - Distributed Key-Value Layer
$135-190k
+ Stock options
Cloud-native, distributed SQL database
Job no longer available
Cloud-native, distributed SQL database
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$135-190k
+ Stock options
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Cockroach Labs' mission is to make data easy by providing an industry-leading model for resilience, horizontal scalability to accommodate fast-growing businesses, and the ability to move data close to business' customers, wherever they reside across the globe.
Role
Who you are
- Passion for working on complex technical products and exposure to topics like distributed systems, consensus, data replication, concurrency control, file systems, or SQL processing
- Comfort using programming languages like Go, C/C++, Java, and Python
- An understanding of system design
- Experience building collaborative relationships with your colleagues. You enjoy being part of the code review process and partnering with your teammates on challenging problems
- 5+ years of relevant experience is ideal
- A BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- Bonus: experience building and running large-scale distributed systems in production
- Bonus: experience with high availability designs and distributed storage/database architectures
- Bonus: MS/PhD or research experience in a relevant domain
What the job involves
- We are looking for a backend software engineer excited about growing an open-source, cloud-native distributed SQL database to join our KV team
- This team is responsible for the distributed foundations of CRDB, including the Distribution Layer (e.g., data sharding, placement and rebalancing), Transaction Layer (e.g., transactional APIs, distributed transactions and concurrency control) and Replication layer (e.g., Raft, distributed lease management and configuration changes)
- Together, these subsystems form the underpinnings of CRDB and the guarantees it provides to clients, namely Fault Tolerance, Availability, Consistency, Transactional Semantics as well as its Performance and Scalability
- We collaborate closely with product and other engineering teams, such as the Storage, and SQL teams
- Contribute to the growth of CockroachDB by bringing your expertise and commitment to excellence to help build a database that makes data easy for everyone
- Develop in Go, but if you don't know it, you'll learn while you're here
- Improve the performance of CockroachDB
- Work closely with other engineers and product managers across our cloud and database teams
- Help foster a collaborative culture and exchange knowledge with a highly experienced technical organization
- Ensure that CockroachDB remains scalable, survivable, and consistent as we continue to grow as a company
- The Expectations
- In the first month, you will join your engineering team and start to learn about our production systems, software development workflow, and the architecture of CockroachDB and our cloud offerings. We believe that it's essential for you to take this time to become familiar with our technology, company, and our culture
- After three months, you'll be a fully-fledged member of the KV team and feel comfortable contributing to CockroachDB. You will begin determining the parts of our product that most interest you and work with your manager to focus your efforts on projects that align with your interests and our goals
- We want our users to have a phenomenal experience using our product. You play a crucial role in making CockroachDB a joy to use, and as our team grows, you will have the opportunity to shape the direction of development for CockroachDB and 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
- You will have the opportunity to report to a member of our engineering leadership team based on the project you work on at Cockroach Labs
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
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. It offers local or global scaling with familiar SQL, failproof fault tolerance, and guaranteed transaction consistency, and can be deployed across any cloud.
Maintaining full SQL compliance with global cloud capabilities will help Cockroach Labs take advantage of the wave of companies needing to scale their existing SQL databases onto the cloud. Cockroach Labs grew from a $2 billion valuation to $5 billion in under a year, proving itself as an enticing and approachable prospect in this developing sector.
It already commands a high-end raft of clients including Comcast, Bose, and Baidu - but competition is stiff, particularly with industry giants like Oracle and AWS. Its hope is that CockroachDB’s high failure tolerance and geo-distribution will provide attractively swift functionality whilst allowing customers to remain within their legal jurisdictions - and will prove pivotal in 5G use cases. Its success to date, targeted updates to ease network migrations, and its recent expansion into EMEA markets, suggest it has a strong shot.
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Dec 2021
$278m
SERIES F
Jan 2021
$160m
SERIES E
Total funding: $633.2m
Company benefits
- Employee referral bonus + donation match
- Connect and Contribute days
- Flexible Working
- Spring Health and an Employee Assistance Program to provide free counseling and support mental health
- $2500 annually to support learning and development through workshops, conferences, and networking events
- We dedicate company time to bond over everything from trivia and karaoke to paint-alongs and fitness classes
- Flexible Time Off
- 100% health insurance coverage & One Medical membership
- Gym discounts & free Citibike membership
- FSA
- 401(k)
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave & $500 in baby bucks
- Relocation Support
Company values
- Commit to Excellence
- Respect Each Other
- Establish Balance
- Communicate Openly & Honestly
Company HQ
Chelsea, New York, NY
Founders
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
(CTO)Previously Software Engineer at Square, Co-Founder at Viewfinder and Software Engineer at Google.
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