Senior Performance Engineer - Databases & Benchmarking

Cockroach Labs Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 238,100; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock Options

Medical Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life and Disability Insurance

Professional Development Funds

Flexible Time Off

Paid Holidays

Paid Sick Days

Job summary

Cockroach Labs Inc. is looking for a Member of Technical Staff in Performance Engineering to join their New York office. In this role, you will take charge of evaluating database performance and work closely with engineering teams to tackle complex performance issues.

The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience, is proficient in cloud platforms like GCP, AWS, or Azure, and has exceptional communication skills. The position offers stock options, medical insurance, and flexible time off among other benefits.

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.
• Guide teams on benchmarking and performance testing methodologies.
• Build automation tools and frameworks.
• Translate customers' workloads to automated performance tests.

Skills

Performance analysis

Benchmarking

Cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure)

Clean coding

Exceptional communication

Education

MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Job description

Cockroach Labs Inc. is looking for a Member of Technical Staff in Performance Engineering to join their New York office. In this role, you will take charge of evaluating database performance and work closely with engineering teams to tackle complex performance issues.

The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience, is proficient in cloud platforms like GCP, AWS, or Azure, and has exceptional communication skills. The position offers stock options, medical insurance, and flexible time off among other benefits.