Member of Technical Staff (Disaster Recovery)

Cockroach Labs•New York, NY

11d•$134,000 - $177,100•Hybrid

About The Position

Cockroach Labs is the creator of CockroachDB, the most highly evolved cloud-native, distributed SQL database on the planet that scales fast, survives anything, and thrives anywhere. We created CockroachDB to unshackle teams from the constraints of their database. Join us on our mission to simplify how businesses build and operate world-changing applications! About the Role We are looking for backend software engineers who are excited about growing a cloud-native distributed SQL database to join our Disaster Recovery team. The DR team is responsible for the core systems that safeguard customer data, including backup and restore functionality, physical cluster replication, and logical data replication. These features enable customers to recover rapidly from catastrophic failures and protect against data loss. The team also owns and maintains CockroachDB’s distributed job system and the bulk ingestion code path, both of which are essential to database performance and scalability. As a member of the DR team, you will have a unique opportunity to work across the entire database stack, from the SQL layer down to the storage engine, to design and implement features that strengthen CockroachDB’s disaster recovery capabilities.

Requirements

A passion for working on complex technical products.
Experience working on databases, distributed systems, consensus, data replication, concurrency control, file systems or SQL processing.
Comfort using programming languages like Go, C/C++, Java, and Python.
2+ years of relevant experience.
Experience building collaborative relationships with your colleagues. You enjoy being part of the code review process and partnering with your teammates on challenging problems.
Strong self-directed learning skills, with the ability to ramp up on new technologies and codebases as needed.
A BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

Experience building, running and debugging large-scale distributed systems in production.

Responsibilities

Contribute to the growth of the open source database, CockroachDB.
Develop in Go, but if you don't know it you'll learn while you're here.
Help foster a collaborative culture and exchange knowledge with a highly experienced technical organization.
Design and implement features for backup, restore, and replication to improve resilience and recovery times.
Collaborate closely with Product, SRE, and Support to address customer needs and resolve escalations.
Improve reliability, performance, and usability of disaster recovery workflows.
Ensure that CockroachDB remains scalable, survivable, and consistent as we continue to grow as a company.