Cockroach Labs
Cockroach Labs builds CockroachDB, a distributed SQL database for mission-critical transactional applications that need global scale and resilience. It sells a managed cloud service and enterprise subscriptions for self-hosted deployments, with tooling for Kubernetes and serverless options. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, the company is privately held.
Open Positions at Cockroach Labs
4 open positions
Serve as the principal technical authority for CockroachDB’s Americas partner ecosystem, shaping integrations, architectures, go-to-market strategy, and partner enablement. This hands-on builder role combines solutions architecture, technical content creation, partner leadership, and pipeline influence.
Build high-performance vector, full-text, and geospatial indexing systems for CockroachDB’s distributed SQL engine. You’ll solve deep database and hybrid-search problems supporting AI-native and search-driven applications.
Build and improve the storage engine at the foundation of CockroachDB, working on durable, scalable, and efficient data persistence and retrieval. This role focuses on distributed storage systems, performance, concurrency, and production-quality database software.
Build next-generation test infrastructure and bug-finding tools for CockroachDB, with a focus on distributed systems correctness, performance, and scalability. This is a hands-on software engineering role—not manual QA—working across fuzzing, analysis, failure injection, and large-scale benchmarking.