Member of Technical Staff (Migrations)

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. 

At Cockroach Labs, we strive to deliver a delightful experience to our customers starting from their first interaction with our database. The Migrations team owns the full suite of MOLT (Migrate Off Legacy Technology) tooling that enables customers to seamlessly move their workloads from external databases to CockroachDB. We are looking for a senior software engineer to join this team during a pivotal moment: the team's charter is expanding to leverage AI to radically simplify the migrations journey and to unify all of the MOLT tooling into a single, cohesive experience.

In this role, you will shape one of the first touchpoints new customers have with CockroachDB, giving you a front-row seat to our rapid growth. You will contribute to both the core migration tooling and new AI-powered capabilities that will transform how customers migrate to CockroachDB.

• Contribute to the growth of CockroachDB by building database migration tooling and AI-powered migration capabilities that make it easy for everyone to migrate to CockroachDB.
• Help drive the team's expanded charter to apply agentic AI to the migrations journey — from experimentation and prototyping through to production-grade systems.
• Contribute to unifying all MOLT tooling into a single, cohesive AI-powered migration experience for customers.
• Develop in Go using agentic coding tools, but if you don't know Go, you'll learn while you're here.
• Work closely with other engineers, product managers, and field engineering.
• Take part in a collaborative culture and exchange knowledge with a highly experienced technical organization.
• Learn about the different challenges of database migrations and create innovative solutions, including AI-driven approaches, to help achieve our goal of making migrations easier.

In the first month you will join your engineering team and start to learn about our production systems, software development workflow, the architecture of CockroachDB, and how our users interact with our offerings. We believe that it's essential for you to take this first month to become familiar with our technology, company, and our culture.

After 3 months you'll be a fully-fledged member of the team and comfortable contributing to CockroachDB's migration tooling ecosystem. You will begin to determine pain points of the customer migration experience and work with your manager to focus your efforts on projects that align with those areas and our goals, including exploring how AI can be applied to improve the migration journey.

As the team grows, you will have the opportunity to shape the direction of development of the migration tooling for CockroachDB, including defining how AI transforms the migration experience and helping unify the MOLT tooling into a seamless product. We also offer technical training and experienced mentorship to help you learn and grow.

• A passion for working on complex technical products and have had exposure to topics such as distributed systems, data replication, concurrency control, file systems, or SQL processing.
• Comfort using programming languages like Go, C/C++, Java, and/or Python.
• A strong understanding of system design for high throughput data systems.
• Experience using one or more database technologies (e.g. MySQL, Postgres, Oracle, SQL Server, Db2, etc).
• Experience with or strong interest in applied AI, including working with agentic coding tools and workflows.
• Experience building collaborative relationships with your colleagues. You enjoy being part of the code review process and partnering with your teammates on challenging problems.
• 7+ years of relevant experience (preferred).
• A BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Adam is an Engineering Fellow at Cockroach Labs, where he has worked across the entire database, from multi-region support and multi-tenancy to migrations, quality, and performance efficiency. Before joining Cockroach Labs, Adam spent 20 years building enterprise database systems, and has experience with autonomic tuning, distributed transactions, columnar storage, and cloud-native architectures. He is based in the company's Toronto office.  Outside of work, Adam is an avid runner, and loves nothing more than spending time with his wife and two daughters.

Jordan is the Head of Engineering for Cockroach Labs. He's responsible for the teams that build, maintain and keep CockroachDB reliably serving the needs of Cockroach Labs' most demanding customer base. He joined Cockroach Labs as a Database Engineer in 2016 when it was just 25 people before moving into engineering leadership leading the Global Engineering organization. Jordan lives in his hometown of Brooklyn NY with his wife. Outside of work he enjoys folk music and riding his electric scooter around town.

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 [email protected].

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.