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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 looking for a software engineer for the Developer Infrastructure team. Our work spans a range of disciplines, including software engineering, software builds, CI/CD systems, cloud infrastructure, information security, and automated testing.The Developer Infrastructure team builds development tools and systems to enable all of Engineering at Cockroach Labs. Our work has a broad-reaching impact on teams who rely on these tools on a daily basis. Our tools encompass the workflow of the entire engineering team, ranging from the CI pipeline to internal hosting infrastructure.
Success in this role means collaborating with many engineering teams and improving workflows for engineers working in different domains between database and cloud engineering.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 for improving our systems and tools.
- Minimizing and automating away toil.
Some examples of work that the team is doing:
- Rolling out a distributed remote Bazel execution cluster to significantly reduce CI and local build times for CockroachDB engineers.
- Adopting IaaC (Terraform) infrastructure configuration and introduce processes and tools to provide better manageability and security of internal cloud infrastructure.
- Optimizing machine types for CI agents to improve CI performance and optimizing cloud costs.
- Shortening release cycles for CockroachDB Cloud teams by automating manual steps in the deployment process.
The ideal candidate will have broad experience in software engineering, continuous integration systems, software builds / version control systems, automation, and cloud infrastructure. They will enjoy working on a variety of problems from project to project.
You Will
- Understand the daily workflows of engineers across the engineering team and identify ways to increase productivity and reduce friction by implementing new tools and processes.
- Improve continuous deployment automation for CockroachDB Cloud application deployments.
- Provide direct support to engineers who need help using our systems.
- Manage and maintain the health and performance of our CI system.
- Write developer infrastructure tools, primarily in Go.
The Expectations
In the first month, you will become an integrated member of the Developer Infrastructure team. You will spend most of your first two weeks learning about how Cockroach Labs works across all departments and become familiar with our DB and Cloud engineering teams. You will start with small tasks before taking on larger starter projects to become familiar with our systems and development workflow and gain exposure to the workings of CockroachDB and CockroachDB Cloud. We believe it is essential for you to take this first month to become familiar with our technology and our company.In your second month, you’ll take on your first medium-sized starter project with a greater scope that will take several weeks to finish -- you’ll be partnered with one or more engineers to plan and complete this project.By the end of the third month, you will be a fully contributing member of the developer infrastructure team, having successfully owned and completed one or more medium-sized projects.
You will also have gained enough familiarity with our systems to propose and scope projects, and you’ll be able to engage with other Cockroach Labs engineers to answer questions and support our development tools.
You Have
- 3+ years of experience as a software engineer.
- Hands-on experience with deploying cloud infrastructure on GCP or AWS.
- Hands -on experience writing development tools and developing CI pipelines.
- Experience with Front-end build tools such as webpack.
- Experience with automation and scripting on Unix.
- Experience with git/GitHub.
- Hands-on experience with containers.
- Exceptional communication skills with a service mindset (where engineers are our customers) and a desire to collaborate with other engineers.
- A BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
The Team
BabuSrithar - Site Lead, India
BabuSrithar is the Site Leader for India. He is responsible for our growth strategy and is a cultural champion in the region. He is passionate about building high-quality software products and lean teams by leveraging everyone's potential. He enjoys working with people and learning along the way. Before joining Cockroach Labs, BabuSrithar held senior leadership positions at companies like Nutanix, Clumio and recently he was VP of engineering at Apty where he led the engineering globally. When not at work, he enjoys his time with his 3-year-old and family.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
- Medical Insurance
- Flexible Time Off
- Paid Parental Leave
- Mental Wellbeing Benefits
- And more!
