Member of Technical Staff (Performance Engineering)

Cockroach Labs; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 238,100; 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 in New York is hiring a Performance Engineer to enhance database performance and efficiency. The role involves evaluating performance across diverse workloads and configurations while collaborating with multiple engineering teams. Candidates should possess substantial experience in performance analysis, benchmarking, and software development.

The expected compensation ranges annually from $180,000 to $238,100, alongside a range of benefits, including stock options, medical, vision, and dental insurance. The company values diversity and is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a performance engineer.
• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer writing clean, idiomatic code.
• 1+ years of hands-on experience with GCP, AWS, or Azure.

Responsibilities

• Increase performance coverage and understanding of CockroachDB.
• Develop new workload strategies and methodologies.
• Investigate performance issues.
• Perform competitive benchmarks.
• Guide other teams on benchmarking methodologies.
• Build automation tools and frameworks.

Skills

Performance engineering

Software development

GCP, AWS, or Azure

Exceptional communication skills

Education

MS in Computer Science or equivalent

Job description

The Role

We are hiring performance engineers to expand our ongoing investment in performance and efficiency. As a performance engineer, you will pair up with engineers to tackle all aspects of evaluating database performance under a wide spectrum of workloads and configurations.

The work encompasses: measuring and defining performance baselines, guiding other teams, performing root cause analysis across the entire stack, performing competitive benchmarking, building new workloads, and more. You will have a large impact on shaping the performance of the database.

This is a high‑impact team, which owns database performance end‑to‑end. The team is situated on a critical path, connecting (all of) Engineering, Product and Marketing. As an ideal candidate, you will have worked with massively complex codebases and possess broad experience in databases, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, as well as deep experience in performance analysis and benchmarking. You are passionate about benchmarking, and you have read "Always measure one level deeper" several times throughout your career. You are an intuitive communicator and author and can adapt your writing to any target audience.

You Will

• Increase our performance coverage and understanding of CockroachDB
• Develop new workload strategies and methodologies
• Investigate performance issues
• Perform competitive benchmarks
• Guide other teams on benchmarking and performance testing methodologies
• Build automation tools and frameworks
• Translate customers’ workloads to automated performance tests

The Expectations

In your first 30 days, you will become an integrated member of our performance engineering team. You’ll become familiar with our production systems, software development workflows, and architecture of CockroachDB. We believe that it’s essential for you to take the first month to get to know our technology and our company. You’ll be given a "starter project" to help you learn about a particular area and start to get the lay of the land.

After your first month, you will align with the team’s development objectives and you will own and complete a medium‑sized starter project. By the end of the starter project, you will be a fully‑contributing member of the Performance Engineering team. You will also have developed enough familiarity with our engineering processes to propose, scope and own future projects.

You Have

Desired experience level ranges from mid to staff level. At a minimum, this role requires:

• 5+ years of experience as a performance engineer
• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer writing clean, idiomatic code
• 1+ years of hands‑on experience with GCP, AWS, or Azure
• Exceptional communication (oral and written) skills and a collaborative mindset
• MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience

The Team

Reporting to Stan Rosenberg – Director of Engineering

Benefits

• 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
• And more!

Cockroach Labs is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer building a diverse and inclusive workforce.

Annual Anticipated Base Salary Range (U.S.): $180,000 — $238,100 USD

We set standard ranges for all U.S.-based roles based on function, level, and geographic location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Actual salaries may vary and fall outside of this range depending on factors such as a candidate’s qualifications, geographic location, skills, experience, and competencies. In addition, we are often open to a wide variety of profiles, and recognize that the person we hire may be less experienced (or more senior) than this job description as posted.