Member of Technical Staff (Performance Engineering)

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 We are hiring performance engineers to expand our ongoing investment in performance and efficiency. As a performance engineer, you will pair up with engineers to tackle all aspects of evaluating database performance under a wide spectrum of workloads and configurations. The work encompasses: measuring and defining performance baselines, guiding other teams, performing root cause analysis across the entire stack, performing competitive benchmarking, building new workloads, and more. You will have a large impact on shaping the performance of the database. This is a high-impact team, which owns database performance end-to-end. The team is situated on a critical path, connecting (all of) Engineering, Product and Marketing. As an ideal candidate, you will have worked with massively complex codebases and possess broad experience in databases, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, as well as deep experience in performance analysis and benchmarking. You are passionate about benchmarking, and you have read Always measure one level deeper several times throughout your career. You are an intuitive communicator and author and can adapt your writing to any target audience. You Will Increase our performance coverage and understanding of CockroachDB Develop new workload strategies and methodologies Investigate performance issues Perform competitive benchmarks Guide other teams on benchmarking and performance testing methodologies Build automation tools and frameworks Translate customers’ workloads to automated performance tests The Expectations In your first 30 days, you will become an integrated member of our performance engineering team. You’ll become familiar with our production systems, software development workflows, and architecture of CockroachDB. We believe that it’s essential for you to take the first month to get to know our technology and our company. You’ll be given a “starter project” to help you learn about a particular area and start to get the lay of the land. After your first month, you will align with the team’s development objectives and you will own and complete a medium-sized starter project. By the end of the starter project , you will be a fully-contributing member of the Performance Engineering team. You will also have developed enough familiarity with our engineering processes to propose, scope and own future projects. You Have Desired experience level ranges from mid to staff level. At a minimum, this role requires: 5+ years of experience as a performance engineer 5+ years of experience as a software engineer writing clean, idiomatic code 1+ years of hands on experience with GCP, AWS, or Azure Exceptional communication (oral and written) skills and a collaborative mindset MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience The Team Reporting to Stan Rosenberg - Director of Engineering Stan is an experienced engineering leader, having built and scaled high-performing engineering teams and distributed systems at high-tech startups. Prior, he worked as a software engineer and a researcher in formal methods. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stevens Institute of Technology. In his free time, he enjoys exploring outdoors while dreaming about days when software works as reliably as a bridge. BabuSrithar - Sr. Director, Engineering BabuSrithar 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 N