Member of Technical Staff (Senior - Specialized Indexing)
Cockroach Labs1 month ago
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain vector, full-text, and geospatial indexing features for CockroachDB.
- Improve the performance and reliability of vector-indexing backfill, query-planning, and import workflows.
- Integrate new indexing mechanisms into the query engine with other database teams.
- Develop hybrid search capabilities combining vector similarity and text-based search.
- Own work from design through implementation, testing, and release, including design discussions, code reviews, and release planning.
Requirements
- Strong background in backend or systems programming, preferably with Go, C/C++, or Rust.
- Experience with indexing or query-execution systems such as vector, text, or spatial search.
- Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
- Typically 10+ years of experience building large-scale, production-grade systems.
- Ability to translate ambiguous problems into scalable, production-grade AI-enabled solutions.
- Interest in databases, indexing systems, high-performance distributed architectures, and hybrid workloads.
- Ability to build reliable, maintainable, reusable, and extensible software and collaborate with a distributed global team.
Benefits
- Medical insurance.
- Flexible time off.
- Paid parental leave.
- Mental wellbeing benefits.
- Internet reimbursement.
- Wellness allowance.
- Food allowance.
- Office commute reimbursement.
- Hybrid work model for employees local to an office, with in-office work on Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays and flexibility during the rest of the week.
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.