Software Engineer, Backend (Migrations) - Toronto

Databases are the beating heart of every business in the world.

Cockroach Labs is the team behind CockroachDB, the most highly evolved cloud-native, distributed SQL database on the planet. We created CockroachDB and CockroachDB Cloud to deliver the ability to build and scale apps with fewer obstacles, more freedom, and greater efficiency. Today, Cockroach Labs helps companies of all sizes—and the apps they develop—scale fast, survive disaster, and thrive everywhere. Join us on our mission to make data easy.

About 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 touchpoints 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.

. You Will

• 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.

The Expectations

In the first month you will join your engineering team and start to learn about our production systems, software development workflow, the architecture of CockroachDB, and how our users interact with our offerings. We believe that it's essential for you to take this first month to become familiar with our technology, company, and our culture.

After 3 months you'll be a fully-fledged member of your team and comfortable contributing to CockroachDB’s migration tooling ecosystem. You will begin to determine pain points of the customer migration experience and work with your manager to focus your efforts on projects that align with those areas and our goals.

As our team grows you will have the opportunity to shape the direction of development of the migration tooling for CockroachDB. We want to eliminate the headaches of database migrations for our users and you play a crucial role in making CockroachDB the easiest database migration target. We also offer technical training and experienced mentorship to help you learn and grow into whatever you wish it to be.

You Have

• 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.
• An understanding of system design.
• 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.

The Team

You will have the opportunity to report to a member of our engineering leadership team based on the project you work on at Cockroach Labs.  In addition, you will get to work closely with the senior leadership including:

Adam Storm - Fellow

Adam is a Fellow at Cockroach Labs.  In his more than two decades in the database industry, he's worked on various aspects of database technology including self-managing databases, transaction management, accelerating analytics processing through columnar storage, and novel databases architectures to separate compute and storage. He is a frequent public speaker, and has co-authored a number of academic papers.  Currently, Adam is focussed on improving the customer experience of migrating workloads to CockroachDB.  When he’s not at work, you can find Adam running, fiddling with some culinary gadget, or spending time doing almost anything with his wife and two daughters.

Isaac Wong - EVP of Engineering

Isaac is responsible for the health of the engineering organization at Cockroach Labs. He partners closely with teams to ensure we have a balanced culture that promotes quality and innovation in pursuit of our goals. Before joining Cockroach Labs Isaac was in life sciences for 16 years with Medidata Solutions where he had a front row seat on the exciting ride from a 30 person startup to more than 2000 people worldwide. But the lure of distributed, resilient, and consistent SQL databases, along with the amazing technology and culture at Cockroach Labs proved too much. When not working he likes to draw, play the piano, and search NYC for cannolis with his wife and kids.

Our Benefits

• Competitive Health Insurance Coverage (for you & your dependents!)
• Paid Parental Leave (with baby bucks)
• Flexible PTO 
• Learning & Development Budget
• Relocation Support (as applicable)

Cockroach Labs is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer building a diverse and inclusive workforce. If you need additional accommodations to feel comfortable during your interview process, please email us at accessibility@cockroachlabs.com.