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# Member of Technical Staff (Migrations) at Cockroach Labs

- **Company:** Cockroach Labs
- **Location:** New York, NY / Toronto, Canada
- **Compensation:** $160k–$235k
- **Posted:** 2026-11-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-09
- **Apply:** https://www.cockroachlabs.com/careers/job/?gh_jid=8328348

## Job description

Category-defining tech. Career-defining work.

For more than a decade, Cockroach Labs has built database technology trusted to power some of the world's most mission-critical applications. Now, as AI transforms how software is created and operated, the infrastructure behind it has to keep pace. Cockroach Continuum is built to meet this moment, bringing individual databases together into one fleet designed for agentic applications, where AI agents help teams provision, scale, and optimize workloads at machine speed.

At Cockroach Labs, you'll solve problems that didn't exist five years ago alongside people who believe the simplest solutions often require the most sophisticated thinking. Your work will run in production at some of the most innovative companies in the world. The people who thrive here are the ones who want to own that opportunity.

## The Role

The Migrations team owns the full suite of MOLT (Migrate Off Legacy Technology) tooling: Convert, Fetch, Replicator, and Verify. We also recently launched the Migration Assistant, which brings the individual MOLT tools together into a single migration workflow which guides customers through moving their databases to CockroachDB and Cockroach Continuum. We're looking for a staff software engineer to help build out the Migration Assistant, expand the capabilities of the MOLT toolkit, and to drive innovation around how AI can be leveraged to further reduce friction during the migration process..

You'll report to Eric Alton, who leads the Migrations and Observability teams, and work closely with other engineers, SREs, and our product and design teams.

This role follows Cockroach Labs' hybrid model: Roachers local to an office come in Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, and work flexibly the rest of the week.

You Will

- Build and extend CockroachDB's migration tooling, including the Migration Assistant, to make migrating to CockroachDB effortless.
- Apply AI to real migration problems in a way that ensures security of customer data and correctness of the migration workflow.
- Help expand the capabilities of MOLT's Convert, Fetch, Replicator, and Verify tools into a single, cohesive migration experience.
- Develop primarily in Go (we'll teach you if you don't know it) alongside engineers and PMs across the cloud and database teams.
- Take part in a collaborative, technically rigorous culture, and help shape engineering practices on a growing team.

The Expectations

In the first month, you'll join the team and get familiar with our production systems, the MOLT tooling suite, the Migration Assistant's architecture, and how customers actually migrate to CockroachDB. Take the time to learn the technology, the team, and how we work before diving into big projects.

After 3 months, you'll be a full member of the team, contributing to the MOLT and Migration Assistant tooling ecosystem. You'll have a feel for where customers hit friction during migrations, and you'll work with your manager to point your efforts at the areas that matter most.

As the team grows and the Migration Assistant matures, you'll have real influence over where migration tooling at CockroachDB goes next, including how far we push AI to take the guesswork out of migrations. We also offer technical training and mentorship to help you grow in whatever direction you want.

You Have

- A passion for complex technical products, and exposure to topics like distributed systems, data replication, concurrency control, file systems, or SQL processing.
- Comfort with Go, C/C++, Java, or Python.
- A strong grasp of system design for high-throughput data systems.
- Experience with one or more database technologies (e.g. MySQL, Postgres, Oracle, SQL Server, Db2).
- Experience and interest in designing and building systems and tools that leverage AI.
- Good judgement about where AI should be integrated into a system and where traditional approaches are preferable.
- A track record of strong collaboration and technical leadership; you enjoy collaborative brainstorming, design and code review, and pairing with teammates on hard problems.
- 7+ years of relevant experience (preferred).
- A BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

The Team

Eric Alton - Sr. Manager, Engineering

Eric leads engineering for the Migrations and Observability teams. His Migrations team recently shipped the Migration Assistant and are now focused on further improvements to the migration tooling suite. Before joining Cockroach Labs, Eric managed teams at Amazon (Aurora MySQL) and worked as an engineer at IBM (Db2). He is based in the company's Toronto office and lives north of the city with his wife and two sons. Outside of work, Eric enjoys riding his bicycle, and is an avid gamer: board, card, and video.

Babu Srithar Muthukrishnan - Sr. Director, Engineering

Srithar leads Platform Engineering at Cockroach Labs, overseeing the teams responsible for the infrastructure, tooling, and systems that keep the engineering organization running at scale. He played a foundational role in establishing Cockroach Labs' engineering presence in India, serving as the site's inaugural Engineering Director and building the team from the ground up — and has recently made the move to New York City, where you can find him at Cockroach Labs' NYC HQ. Before joining Cockroach Labs, Srithar held senior engineering leadership positions at Nutanix and Clumio, and most recently served as VP of Engineering at Apty, where he led engineering globally. He's passionate about building high-quality software products and lean, high-performing teams by unlocking the potential of the people around him. When he's not working, you can find Srithar exploring NYC with his family.

Isaac Wong - EVP of Research & Development

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 cannoli's with his wife and kids.

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 candidates for this role is listed below. Salary is one component of the Cockroach Labs’ Total Rewards package, which also includes: stock options, medical insurance, vision insurance, dental insurance, life and disability insurance, funds for professional development, flexible paid time off, paid sick days and holidays, paid parental leave, and wellbeing benefits. We have a match on 401(k) contributions in the U.S.

We set competitive pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and geographic location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Benefits programs are designed according to local market practices. 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.

Annual Anticipated Base Salary Range (USD) $180,000—$235,000 USD

Annual Anticipated Base Salary Range (CAD) $160,000—$210,000 CAD

## 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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