Member of Technical Staff (Storage)
Cockroach Labs1 day ago
Base Salary
$180k - $238k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build CockroachDB storage systems and layers, including Pebble and Plenum.
- Solve complex storage and distributed-systems problems involving durability, performance, scalability, cost, and operational simplicity.
- Lead the design and delivery of significant Storage initiatives in partnership with engineering and product leadership.
- Collaborate with engineers across database and cloud organizations, product, support, and field engineering.
- Improve engineering effectiveness through design reviews, mentorship, technical communication, and AI-assisted development practices.
- Build and operate mission-critical software and participate in the Storage on-call rotation.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience building complex distributed systems or storage software.
- Significant experience with distributed systems, concurrency control, file systems, data replication, I/O performance, or memory management.
- Experience building or evolving storage systems such as log-structured merge-trees, blob storage, or cloud object storage.
- Production experience building, operating, debugging, and evolving large-scale distributed systems through rolling upgrades.
- Production-ready programming ability in systems languages such as Go, Rust, or C/C++.
- Strong collaboration, technical communication, mentoring, and problem-solving skills.
Benefits
- Hybrid work model with local employees in offices on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays and flexible work the rest of the week.
- Stock options, medical insurance, vision insurance, dental insurance, life and disability insurance, professional development funds, flexible time off, paid holidays, paid sick days, paid parental leave, retirement benefits, and mental wellbeing benefits.
- 401(k) contribution matching is available in the U.S.
About 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.