Databases are the beating heart of every business in the world.

Cockroach Labs is the creator of CockroachDB, the planet's most highly evolved cloud-native, distributed SQL database that scales fast, survives anything, & thrives anywhere. Join us on our mission to unshackle teams from the constraints of their database & enable every developer to build world-changing applications!

About the Role

We are looking for a backend software engineer excited about growing an open-source, cloud-native distributed SQL database to join our Change Data Capture (CDC) team. This team is responsible for the Changefeeds feature of CockroachDB, which allows row-level data changes to be streamed into one or more sinks for further downstream processing.

. You Will

• Contribute to the growth of CockroachDB through bringing your expertise & 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 & product managers across both the cloud & database teams. 
• Take part in a collaborative culture & exchange knowledge with a highly experienced technical organization.
• Ensure that CockroachDB remains scalable, survivable, & consistent as we continue to grow as a company.

The Expectations

In the first month, you will join your engineering team & start to learn about our production systems, software development workflow, & the architecture of CockroachDB & our cloud offerings. We believe that it's essential for you to take this time to become familiar with our technology, company, & our culture.

After three months, you'll be a fully-fledged member of the CDC team & feel comfortable contributing to CockroachDB. You will begin determining the parts of our product that most interest you & work with your manager to focus your efforts on projects that align with your interests & our goals.

As our team grows, you will have the opportunity to shape the direction of development for CockroachDB & CockroachDB Cloud. We want our users to have a phenomenal experience using our product, & you play a crucial role in making CockroachDB a joy to use. We also offer technical training & experienced mentorship to help you learn & grow within your role.

You Have

• A passion for working on complex technical products & have exposure to topics such as distributed systems, stream processing, data replication, concurrency control, file systems, or SQL processing.
• Comfort using programming languages like Go, C/C++, Java, & Python.
• An understanding of system design.
• Experience building collaborative relationships with your colleagues. You enjoy being part of the code review process & 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, running & debugging large-scale distributed systems in production.
• Bonus: Experience with high availability designs & distributed storage/database architectures.
• Bonus: Experience with one or more of the following sinks: Kafka, GCP Pubsub, GCP Cloud Storage, AWS S3.

The Team

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.  In addition, you will get to work closely with the senior leadership including:

Nick Travers - Senior Manager, Engineering

Nick joined Cockroach Labs in 2021, & leads both the CDC & Storage teams. CDC focuses on detection & replication of row-level data changes into downstream sinks. Storage is responsible for Pebble, our RocksDB-inspired Log Structured Merge (LSM) Tree implementation. Nick lives in Los Angeles, but hails from Perth, Australia. An avid Arsenal Football Club supporter, he also dabbles in cookery.

Isaac Wong - SVP of Engineering

Isaac is responsible for the health of the engineering organization at Cockroach Labs. He partners closely with teams to ensure we have a balanced culture that promotes quality & innovation in pursuit of our goals. Before joining Cockroach Labs Isaac was in life sciences for 16 years with Medidata Solutions where he had a front row seat on the exciting ride from a 30 person startup to more than 2000 people worldwide. But the lure of distributed, resilient, & consistent SQL databases, along with the amazing technology & culture at Cockroach Labs proved too much. When not working he likes to draw, play the piano, & search NYC for cannoli's with his wife & kids.

Our Benefits

• Competitive Health Insurance Coverage (for you & your dependents!)
• Paid Parental Leave (with baby bucks)
• Flexible PTO
• Learning & Development Budget
• Relocation Support (as applicable)

Cockroach Labs is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer building a diverse & inclusive workforce. If you need additional accommodations to feel comfortable during your interview process, please email us at accessibility@cockroachlabs.com.

The annual anticipated base salary range for U.S. candidates for this role is USD $165,000 to $225,000, plus commission if a sales role. We set standard ranges for all U.S.-based roles based on function, level, & geographic location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. In order to be compliant with local legislation, as well as to provide greater transparency to candidates, we share salary ranges on all job postings regardless of desired hiring location.  Actual salaries may vary & fall outside of this range depending on factors such as a candidates qualifications, geographic location, skills, experience, & competencies. In addition, we are often open to a wide variety of profiles, & recognize that the person we hire may be less experienced (or more senior) than this job description as posted. Salary is one component of the Cockroach Labs total rewards package, which includes stock options, health insurance, life & disability insurance, funds towards professional development resources, flexible PTO, paid holidays, & parental leave, to name a few! Salaries for candidates outside the U.S. will vary based on local compensation structures.