Member of Technical Staff (Migrations)

Cockroach Labs•Toronto, ON

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

Category-defining tech. Career-defining work. Lots of tech companies disrupt. But, many fail when they try to scale. We're different. CockroachDB makes it easier for companies to build and scale apps. This is how and why we're helping some of the most innovative companies on the planet. We tackle problems head-on and focus on solutions that create lasting impact. Because when our customers win, we all win. The Role At Cockroach Labs, we strive to deliver a delightful experience to our customers starting from their first interaction with our database. Creating such experiences that make data easy and painless is paramount to our mission. In particular, we are looking for a senior software engineer to help lead the critical initiative of creating an effortless, seamless customer journey from other database solutions to CockroachDB and our cloud offerings. In this role, you will create one of the first touch points new customers will have with CockroachDB, giving you a front-row seat to our rapid growth. If you bring your expertise and commitment to excellence, we’ll team you up with other talented engineers, SREs, and our product and design teams, as we work together to give developers a platform for their data. You will also have the opportunity to make a significant internal impact by helping establish the culture and practices for engineering at Cockroach Labs.

Requirements

A passion for working on complex technical products and have had exposure to topics such as distributed systems, data replication, concurrency control, file systems, or SQL processing.
Comfort using programming languages like Go, C/C++, Java, and Python.
A strong understanding of system design for high throughput data systems.
Experience using one or more database technologies (e.g. MySQL, Postgres, Oracle, SQL Server, Db2, etc).
Experience building collaborative relationships with your colleagues. You enjoy being part of the code review process and partnering with your teammates on challenging problems.
7+ years of relevant experience (preferred).
A BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

Contribute to the growth of CockroachDB by bringing your expertise and commitment to excellence to help build database migration tooling that makes it easy for everyone to migrate to CockroachDB.
Develop in Go, but if you don't know it, you'll learn while you're here.
Work closely with other engineers and product managers across both the cloud and database teams.
Take part in a collaborative culture and exchange knowledge with a highly experienced technical organization.
Learn about the different challenges of database migrations and create solutions to help make migrations easier