Member of Technical Staff (Storage)
Cockroach Labs2 months ago
Base Salary
$185k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain Pebble, CockroachDB’s Log Structured Merge storage engine.
- Build higher-layer storage features and MVCC APIs for CockroachDB.
- Improve CockroachDB performance, scalability, survivability, consistency, and reliability.
- Contribute to the development, operation, and troubleshooting of Cockroach Cloud storage offerings.
- Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and other teams across the cloud and database organizations.
- Use AI-assisted development workflows while retaining final authority and accountability for production output.
Requirements
- Experience working on complex technical products with exposure to distributed systems, concurrency control, file systems, data replication, or memory management.
- Comfort using Go, C, C++, Java, or Python; Go is the primary language used by the team.
- Strong product architecture knowledge and understanding of how team interactions affect architecture.
- At least 3 years of relevant experience is ideal.
- Ability to use AI as an augmentation tool while maintaining correctness, reliability, system integrity, and production quality.
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred experience with storage systems such as Log-Structured Merge Trees or Pebble.
- Preferred experience building, operating, and debugging large-scale distributed systems in production.
Benefits
- Hybrid work model with local employees working from the office on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays and flexibly the rest of the week.
- Stock options.
- Medical, vision, dental, life, and disability insurance.
- Professional development funds.
- Flexible time off, paid holidays, and paid sick days.
- Paid parental leave.
- Retirement benefits including a 401(k) plan.
- Mental wellbeing benefits.
About Cockroach Labs
Cockroach Labs is the creator of CockroachDB, the cloud agnostic, distributed SQL database enterprises trust to run mission-critical applications that scale fast, survive disaster, and thrive everywhere.