Dev Infrastructure Engineer (AI Tools & Bazel)

Cockroach Labs; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 134,000 - 221,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock Options

Medical Insurance

Vision Insurance

Dental Insurance

Life and Disability Insurance

Professional Development Funds

Flexible Time Off

Paid Holidays

Paid Sick Days

Paid Parental Leave

Retirement Benefits

Mental Wellbeing Benefits

Job summary

Cockroach Labs is hiring a staff-level software engineer for the Developer Infrastructure team. You will help build and scale internal development tools, focusing on Go and TypeScript, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and AI tooling to reduce engineers’ toil.

You’ll collaborate across DB and Cloud Engineering, learn daily workflows, and ship tools that improve developer productivity while maintaining high-quality, reliable systems.

Qualifications

• Deep, hands-on experience with Bazel: designing and maintaining complex build processes.
• Desire to make other engineers more productive and customer-focused.
• Curiosity and willingness to learn unfamiliar tools quickly.
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative, service-oriented mindset.

Responsibilities

• Learn engineers' workflows and identify productivity improvements with new tools and processes.
• Maintain the health and performance of the CI system.
• Provide direct, service-minded support to engineers using our systems.
• Build developer infrastructure tools, primarily in Go and Typescript.

Skills

Bazel build systems

Go programming

Web development

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud experience (GCP/AWS)

AI tooling experience

Communication & collaboration

Problem solving

Education

BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Tools

TeamCity

GitHub Actions

Webpack

Claude Code

Cursor

Job description

Cockroach Labs is hiring a staff-level software engineer for the Developer Infrastructure team. You will help build and scale internal development tools, focusing on Go and TypeScript, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and AI tooling to reduce engineers’ toil.

You’ll collaborate across DB and Cloud Engineering, learn daily workflows, and ship tools that improve developer productivity while maintaining high-quality, reliable systems.