Member of Technical Staff (SRE)

Cockroach Labs
New York, NYPosted 24 February 2026

Job Description

<div class="job-post-container" style="position: relative; background-color: white; padding: 20px; max-width: 1000px; margin: 0 auto; box-shadow: 0px 0px 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); min-height: 500px; border: 5px solid #0037A5;"> <div style="position: absolute; top: 0; left: 2; width: 200px; height: 300px; margin-top: 30px; opacity: 1; z-index: 1;"> </div> <div class="job-post-content" style="position: relative; z-index: 2;"> <h1 style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 20px; text-align: center;"><img style="max-width: 100%; float: left;" src="https://i.imgur.com/b9m4CJj.jpeg" alt="" width="92"></h1> <h1 style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 20px; text-align: center;"> </h1> <h1 style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 20px; text-align: center;"> </h1> <h1 style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 20px; text-align: center;">Category-defining tech. Career-defining work.</h1> <p style="text-align: center;">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. </p> <h3 style="text-align: center;">Because when our customers win, we all win. </h3> <p> </p> <hr> <h2><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong>The Role</strong></span></h2> <p>CockroachDB provides the backbone of storing data on a global scale. Our core mission on the SRE team is to operate at scale a secure reliable Cockroach Cloud product. We provide consultation, planning, architectural oversight, concrete designs, development, and implementation that improve the resilience, efficiency, performance, and availability of our Cloud Service. We also take pride in being good on-call engineers. We believe regular reflection on the experience of being on-call can contribute in the short, medium, long term to improvements to the core product, including to CRDB itself.</p> <p>As a Site Reliability Engineer you’ll help manage and scale our<a href="https://www.cockroachlabs.com/product/cloud/"> CockroachCloud</a> service, a fully managed global offering of CockroachDB spanning multiple cloud providers. You will oversee our production system, ensuring that we can provide stable and scalable infrastructure as we deliver CockroachDB to our customers.</p> <h2><strong>You Will</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Manage the infrastructure for cloud services, including running internal production systems and hosting CockroachDB for our external customers.</li> <li>Design, write and deliver software and systems to increase product reliability and operational efficiency.</li> <li>Develop custom tools as necessary.</li> <li>Keep a complex system running and solve problems relating to mission-critical services.</li> <li>Design, implement, operate, and troubleshoot the automation and monitoring of production clusters to maximize performance and availability.</li> <li>Drive the company through disaster recovery tests, where we manually turn down pieces of CockroachDB to test its overall resilience to failures.</li> <li>Participate in an on-call rotation for our production systems and hosted services.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>The Expectations</strong></h2> <p>In your first 30 days, you will onboard and be exposed to our current internal and customer-facing production systems. Working with our existing SRE and engineering teams, you will pair on production operations and build out runbooks for the operation of different systems. We believe that it's essential for you to take this first month to become familiar with our technology and our company.</p> <p>After 3 months, you'll be fully integrated into the team. You will develop and own tooling ... (truncated, view full listing at source)