Cockroach Labs
Software Engineer, Backend (SQL Foundations) - New York, NY, Toronto
New York, NY | $165K - $225K
Qualifications
- A passion for working on complex technical products and have exposure to topics such as 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
- 8+ years of relevant experience ideal
- A BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the growth of CockroachDB through 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 the cloud and database teams
- Take part in 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
- 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
- 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
- She partners closely with the product manager and engineers to build and maintain an impactful roadmap
Benefits
- Competitive Health Insurance Coverage (for you & your dependents!)
- Paid Parental Leave (with baby bucks)
- Learning & Development Budget
- Relocation Support (as applicable)
- The annual anticipated base salary range for U.S. candidates for this role is USD $165,000 to $225,000, plus commission if a sales role
- Salary is one component of the Cockroach Labs’ total rewards package, which includes stock options, health insurance, life and disability insurance, funds towards professional development resources, flexible PTO, paid holidays, and parental leave, to name a few!
- Salaries for candidates outside the U.S. will vary based on local compensation structures
- 201-500 employees
- Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software, Software Development, Data Analytics, Cloud Computing, Computer Software, Information Technology and Services, Database Management Systems, Data Security
- Privately Held
- Founded: 2015
- Last round: Series F
- Last round: US$ 278.0M
- New York, NY
- Company Specialties:
Open Source, Distributed Database, Transactional, RDBMS, SQL, Kubernetes, Serverless, Cloud Database, and Distributed SQL
Company information
Cockroach Labs is the creator of CockroachDB, the most highly evolved cloud-native, distributed SQL database on the planet. We help companies of all sizes — and the apps they develop — scale fast, survive anything, and thrive everywhere.
