Cockroach Labs

Cockroach Labs

Sr. Engineering Manager, Key Value (KV)

New York, NY · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$218k-$289kDetected 50 days ago
Distributed SystemsSQLRESTAccessibilityProject ManagementLeadershipMentoring

About the role

  • Every transaction CockroachDB handles - billions a day, across global banks, payments networks, retailers, and SaaS platforms - moves through the Key Value (KV) layer of the database.
  • This includes CockroachDB's distributed transaction protocol, its replication layer (which uses Raft consensus), and its data placement allocator.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the team. Manage projects, coach engineers, run the performance and growth process, and hire to maintain the technical bar and culture as the team evolves.
  • High EQ. You build trust through empathy and consistency. You're comfortable in the weeds when needed, and you don't confuse leadership with distance from the work.

Requirements

  • Solid working knowledge of CockroachDB's architecture and KV's place in it.

Nice to have

  • Ideally a background in databases or systems infrastructure (storage, compute, networking).

Skills

  • Category-defining tech.
  • Career-defining work.
  • Lots of tech companies disrupt.
  • But, many fail when they try to scale.
  • The primitives on top of which CockroachDB is built.
  • Be the connective tissue with the rest of Database Engineering org.

Compensation

  • The annual anticipated base salary range for U.S. candidates for this role is listed in USD below.
  • Annual Anticipated Base Salary Range (U.S)
  • $218,000 - $288,600 USD

Benefits

  • Medical Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Life and Disability Insurance
  • Flexible Time Off
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Retirement Benefits
  • Mental Wellbeing Benefits

Company info

  • Reporting to Nick Travers, Director, Engineering.
  • Nick joined Cockroach Labs in 2021 and leads the Database Platform group - Storage, KV, Server, Disaster Recovery, and Change Data Capture.
  • Originally from Perth, Australia, he lives in Los Angeles with his family.
  • Arsenal supporter, occasional cook, outdoors person.
  • Isaac Wong, EVP R&D. Isaac leads the Engineering organization at Cockroach Labs, with a focus on the culture and execution that let the teams ship hard problems. He joined from Medidata Solutions, where over 16 years he watched the company grow from 30 people to over 2,000. He lives in NYC with his wife and kids. He draws, plays piano, hunts for the city's best cannoli.
  • 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.
  • Drive the roadmap. Along with the team's technical leads, partner with Engineering and Product leadership to plan, prioritize, and ship multi-quarter projects across the team's subdomains - replication, transactions, distribution, and resource management.
  • Be the connective tissue with the rest of Database Engineering org. KV sits at the center of our product. The storage layer sits below, SQL sits on top, Backup, Restore and Changefeeds (CDC) move data through it. You'll keep those interfaces healthy - technically and organizationally.
  • Run a portfolio of highly technical projects. The team's domain is broad and deep. You'll keep several large, parallel projects on track without losing the technical details that matter.
  • Represent the team externally. Tech talks, conferences, meetups, hackathons - showing the team's work off to the broader database and distributed systems community.
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