Backend Software Engineer, Cockroach Labs
Migrations
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Cloud-native, distributed SQL database
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Cloud-native, distributed SQL database
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
More information about location
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
- 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
- An understanding of system design
- 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
What the job involves
- In this role, you will create one of the first touchpoints 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
- 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
- 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
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. 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.
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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
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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
(CTO)Previously Software Engineer at Square, Co-Founder at Viewfinder and Software Engineer at Google.
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