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# Member of Technical Staff at Cockroach Labs

- **Company:** Cockroach Labs
- **Location:** New York, NY / San Mateo, CA / Toronto, Canada
- **Compensation:** $134k–$221k
- **Posted:** 2026-08-31
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://www.cockroachlabs.com/careers/job/?gh_jid=8055385

## Job description

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

Cockroach Labs is hiring a staff-level software engineer for the Developer Infrastructure team, part of our Engineering Productivity organization. This role is more than a traditional build/CI-infrastructure profile that spans build systems and cloud infrastructure. Our recent focus on developing AI tooling means that you will spend time building AI tools engineers depend on every day, not just keeping CI green.

The Developer Infrastructure team builds development tools and systems that every engineer at Cockroach Labs relies on, from the CI pipeline to internal cloud and AI-powered development tools. Success in this role means partnering closely with teams across DB and Cloud Engineering, understanding where their workflows break down, and shipping tools that reduce friction.

## Our team values

- Providing high-quality support to Cockroach Labs engineering teams and a strong desire to help other people work more productively.
- Engaging with other Cockroach Labs engineers to build relationships, listen to developer pain points, and identify opportunities to apply AI and automation to their workflows.
- Minimizing and automating away toil - including the toil of using AI safely and reliably.
- Shipping incrementally, measuring quality with data, and being honest about where AI tooling still needs a human in the loop.

Some examples of work the team is doing

- Building Roachdev Cloud, a cloud-based AI agent harness integrated with our internal development systems.
- Building a CLI tool for Cloud engineers to simplify common development workflows.
- Building a self-service system to manage GitHub repository admin access via a JIT admin model.
- Standing up new build processes and CI infrastructure needed to ship IBM S390x support for CockroachDB.

The ideal candidate has deep build-systems experience (Bazel in particular), a strong interest in applying automation and AI tooling to engineering problems, and enough breadth to move between developer tooling (both CLI and web-based), CI systems, and cloud infrastructure as the work demands.

You Will

- Learn engineers' daily workflows across the org and identify ways to increase productivity and reduce friction through new tools and processes.
- Maintain the health and performance of our CI system.
- Provide direct, service-minded support to engineers using our systems.
- Build developer infrastructure tools, primarily in Go and Typescript.

The Expectations

First month: You'll onboard as a member of the Developer Infrastructure team, learning how Cockroach Labs works across departments and how our DB and Cloud Engineering teams operate. You'll start with small, well-scoped tasks before taking on a larger starter project, with the goal of gaining exposure to a breadth of systems.

Second month: You'll take on your first medium-sized project, partnering with one or more engineers to develop a plan and deliver it.

By month three: You'll be a fully contributing team member, having owned and shipped one or more medium-sized projects, with enough familiarity to propose and scope new work and support other engineers on our development tools.

You Have

- Deep, hands-on experience with Bazel: designing and maintaining complex build processes, not just using Bazel day to day.
- A desire to make other engineers more productive, you think of engineers as your customers.
- Curiosity and willingness to learn unfamiliar tools and systems quickly.
- Strong communication skills and a collaborative, service-oriented mindset.
- Cloud infrastructure experience on GCP or AWS.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines (with Bazel, TeamCity, GitHub Actions, Webpack, etc.).
- Strong experience with agentic AI development tools (Claude Code, Cursor).
- Go programming and web development experience.
- A BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

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.

Cockroach Labs has a hybrid work model, with Roachers that are local to one of our offices coming in on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays and working flexibly the rest of the week. While we’ve learned valuable lessons working remotely, nothing can replace the connection, creativity, and fun that occurs when Roachers get together and we are committed to fostering a workplace that encourages collaboration and allows us all to do our best work.

## Benefits

- Stock Options
- Medical Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Life and Disability Insurance
- Professional Development Funds
- Flexible Time Off
- Paid Holidays
- Paid Sick Days
- Paid Parental Leave
- Retirement Benefits
- Mental Wellbeing Benefits
- And more!

The annual anticipated base salary range for U.S. candidates for this role is listed in USD below. Salary is one component of the Cockroach Labs’ Total Rewards package, which also includes, for each employee: stock options, medical insurance, vision insurance, dental insurance, life and disability insurance, funds towards professional development resources, flexible paid time off, 11 paid holidays a year, 10 paid sick days a year, paid parental leave, a 401(k) plan, and wellbeing benefits.

We set standard ranges for all U.S.-based roles based on function, level, and geographic location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Actual salaries may vary and fall outside of this range depending on factors such as a candidate’s qualifications, geographic location, skills, experience, and competencies. In addition, we are often open to a wide variety of profiles, and recognize that the person we hire may be less experienced (or more senior) than this job description as posted.

Salaries for candidates outside the U.S. will vary based on local compensation structures.

This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our Careers Page.

Annual Anticipated Base Salary Range (U.S) $134,000—$221,000 USD

## About Cockroach Labs

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Cockroach Labs builds CockroachDB, a cloud-native, distributed SQL database that helps businesses build and scale applications with resilience and consistency.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series F)
- **Headquarters**: New York City, New York, USA
- **Founded**: 2015
- **Founders**: Spencer Kimball, Peter Mattis, Ben Darnell

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Database Infrastructure, Cloud Software, Enterprise Technology
- **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise, SMB, and developers building mission-critical, geo-distributed applications
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To simplify how businesses build and operate world-changing applications by eliminating database bottlenecks and downtime.

## Products & Services
- **[CockroachDB (Core/Enterprise)](/products)**: A distributed SQL database built on a transactional key-value store, offering horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and survivability across regions. Available as a self-hosted (open-source core) or fully managed cloud service (CockroachDB Serverless and Dedicated).
- **CockroachDB Cloud**: A fully managed, multi-cloud database-as-a-service (DBaaS) on AWS, GCP, and Azure, handling operational complexity.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Valued at approximately $5 billion as of its Series F round in 2021 (most recent disclosed valuation).
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – Over $635 million raised.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sequoia Capital, Benchmark, Tiger Global Management, GV (Google Ventures), Index Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Altimeter Capital, and Bond.
- **Growth Signals**: Strong adoption by enterprise customers and startups; expansion of cloud offerings (Serverless, Dedicated); opening of new engineering offices (e.g., Toronto); consistent publication of research papers and contributions to the open-source community.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Technology Moat**: CockroachDB is one of the few databases that natively supports consistent, geo-distributed transactions with SQL semantics, a notoriously hard engineering problem. Its architecture (based on the Raft consensus protocol and a distributed key-value store) provides high availability and strong consistency without manual sharding.
- **Open-Source Ecosystem**: The core database is open-source (BSL license), fostering a large community, contributions, and widespread adoption, which creates a strong network effect and brand loyalty.
- **Cloud-Native by Design**: Built from the ground up for modern cloud environments, it runs on all major cloud providers and offers a seamless multi-cloud experience.

## Strategic Focus
- **Cloud Expansion**: Aggressively growing its managed cloud business (CockroachDB Cloud) to capture the growing DBaaS market and reduce operational overhead for customers.
- **Developer Experience**: Investing heavily in developer tools, SQL compatibility, and ease of use to lower the barrier to entry for teams migrating from legacy databases like PostgreSQL.
- **Enterprise Sales**: Targeting large enterprises with mission-critical applications that require zero downtime and global scale.
- **Multi-Region Capabilities**: Simplifying multi-region deployment with new SQL syntax and configuration options to make geo-distributed applications more accessible.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Cockroach Labs emphasizes a culture of "good ideas come from everyone," collaboration, and leadership regardless of title. They have employee resource groups (CREWS) like Women at Cockroach Labs, Roacher Pride, AsianPI at CRL, and Black at CRL.
- **Work Model**: The company has an **office-first approach** (hybrid), requiring employees to be in one of their offices (NYC, Toronto, or other hubs) on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday, with flexibility the rest of the week. Remote roles are reserved for specific field sales and enterprise architecture positions.
- **Benefits & Perks**: Competitive health insurance, paid parental leave, flexible PTO, learning & development budget, relocation support, and an employee referral bonus.
- **Engineering Culture**: Engineers work with a modern stack (Go, Kubernetes, Terraform, Prometheus) on a category-defining product. The company is committed to open source, continuous improvement, and publishing research. Onboarding includes a structured 30-day program.
- **Interview Process**: They use an "open interview process" with exercise-based assessments (coding, system design, case studies) to reduce bias and focus on skills rather than resumes. They aim for a fair, transparent, and two-way conversation.

## Sources
1. [Cockroach Labs Careers Page](https://www.cockroachlabs.com/careers/)
2. [Cockroach Labs Open Positions](https://www.cockroachlabs.com/careers/open-positions/)
3. [Cockroach Labs Open Interview Process](https://www.cockroachlabs.com/careers/open-interview/)
4. [Cockroach Labs Product & Engineering](https://www.cockroachlabs.com/careers/product-and-engineering/)
5. [Cockroach Labs Jobs (Greenhouse)](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/cockroachlabs)

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