Member of Technical Staff (Cloud Platform)

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 CockroachDB is the backbone of storing global services. As an Engineer on the Cloud Platform team, you will help manage and scale our CockroachDB Cloud services and infrastructure, which span multiple cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, and GCP. You will oversee our production systems, spending time developing systems, tooling, and infrastructure that ensures stable and scalable infrastructure - and the reliability and quality of our cloud offerings - as we deliver CockroachDB to our customers. In this role, you will collaborate across multiple teams building CockroachDB’s cloud offerings and the development and product teams working on the actual database. Our team is enabling key features of running on CockroachDB Cloud, such as multi-region deployments, customer managed encryption keys and elastic scaling. The platform is deployed globally and will push the limits of the services cloud vendors provide today. You Will Design, build, and maintain our internal and customer facing systems with Cockroach Cloud. Design, write, and deliver software and systems that increase product reliability and operational efficiency. Develop custom tools as necessary. Keep a complex system running and solve problems relating to mission-critical services. Design, implement, operate, and troubleshoot the automation and deployment of internal and production Kubernetes clusters to maximize performance and availability. Participate in an on-call rotation for our production systems and hosted services. The Expectations In your first 30 days, you will become an integrated member of our engineering team. You’ll become familiar with our production systems, software development workflow, and application architecture for CockroachDB and CockroachCloud. We believe that it's essential for you to take this first month to become familiar with our technology and our company. In your second month, you’ll focus on gaining familiarity with our cluster management challenges and domain. You’ll contribute to designing our state of the art cluster management solutions for CockroachDB. In your third month, you’ll become a point person for a major cluster management feature, also helping implement or review one or more significant projects in the team. You Have The qualifications below are ideal, but not all required. We strongly encourage candidates who do not have all the qualifications listed below to apply. Expertise with at least one cloud provider such as AWS, Azure, or GCP and Cloud APIs. Expertise in analyzing, monitoring, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems. Experience managing large projects/initiatives to completion on your own. Experience in software development using one or more of the following: Go, C, C++, Python, Java. Experience running Kubernetes clusters in a production environment. Familiarity with infrastructure tooling such as Terraform or Pulumi. Proficiency in working with algorithms, data structures, and production troubleshooting. Debugged and optimized code to automate routine tasks. A working knowledge of web and network protocols and standards (HTTP, TLS, DNS, etc.) Previous on-call experience. Experience building collaborative relationships with your colleagues. You enjoy being part of the code review process, partnering with your teammates on complex problems, and mentoring less senior engineers. Ideally 3+ years of professional experience and a degree in CS or related field. The Team BabuSrithar - Site Lead, India BabuSrithar is the Site Leader for India. He is responsible f ... (truncated, view full listing at source)