Member of Technical Staff (Storage)

Cockroach Labs•New York, NY

63d•$185,000 - $200,000•Hybrid

About The Position

CockroachDB makes it easier for companies to build and scale apps. We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our Storage team, which is responsible for Pebble, CockroachDB’s storage engine. Storage is the bedrock of our database product, and is responsible for the safe, durable and efficient persistence and retrieval of data. Our team develops and maintains Pebble, an innovative Log Structured Merge (LSM) Tree storage engine, purpose built for Multi Version Concurrency Control (MVCC) data. Additionally, our team develops higher layer storage features for integration with CockroachDB, such as MVCC APIs for mutation and iteration, and the Enterprise Encryption At Rest (EAR) feature in CockroachDB. The team also has a hand in the development, operation and troubleshooting of our Cockroach Cloud product, as it relates to the various storage offerings of the cloud providers on top of which Cockroach Cloud runs.

Requirements

Experience working on complex technical products and have exposure to distributed systems, concurrency control, file systems, data replication, or memory management.
Comfort using programming languages like Go, C/C++, Java, and Python. We use Go, but if you don't know it, you'll learn while you're here.
A solid product architecture knowledge and grasp how a variety of team interactions’ may impact it.
Experience (or strong interest) in adopting AI-centric development workflows.
3+ years of relevant experience is ideal.
A BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

Experience with storage systems (e.g., preferably Log-Structured Merge Trees, Pebble, etc.)
Experience building, running and debugging large-scale distributed systems in production.
You want to play an active role in how we use AI to reduce toil and build high-quality software.

Responsibilities

Contribute to the growth of CockroachDB through bringing your expertise and commitment to excellence to help build a database that makes data easy for everyone.
Develop in Go, but if you don't know it, you'll learn while you're here.
Improve the performance of CockroachDB.
Work closely with other engineers and product managers across both the cloud and database teams.
Work in an environment in which access to state-of-the-art AI-assisted planning and development is provided.
Take part in a collaborative culture and exchange knowledge with a highly experienced technical organization.
Ensure that CockroachDB remains scalable, survivable, and consistent as we continue to grow as a company.