Cockroach Labs develops CockroachDB and Cockroach Continuum, an agentic database cloud-native, distributed SQL database designed for extreme resilience, seamless horizontal scaling, and global deployment. Backed by Index, Sequoia and GV.
About the role
The Migrations team owns the full suite of MOLT (Migrate Off Legacy Technology) tooling: Convert, Fetch, Replicator, and Verify. We also recently launched the Migration Assistant, which brings the individual MOLT tools together into a single migration workflow which guides customers through moving their databases to CockroachDB and Cockroach Continuum. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- A passion for complex technical products, and exposure to topics like distributed systems, data replication, concurrency control, file systems, or SQL processing
- Comfort with Go, C/C++, Java, or Python
- A strong grasp of system design for high-throughput data systems
- Experience with one or more database technologies (e.g. MySQL, Postgres, Oracle, SQL Server, Db2)
- Experience and interest in designing and building systems and tools that leverage AI
- Good judgement about where AI should be integrated into a system and where traditional approaches are preferable
More about this role
For more than a decade, Cockroach Labs has built database technology trusted to power some of the world's most mission-critical applications. Now, as AI transforms how software is created and operated, the infrastructure behind it has to keep pace. Cockroach Continuum is built to meet this moment, bringing individual databases together into one fleet designed for agentic applications, where AI agents help teams provision, scale, and optimize workloads at machine speed.
At Cockroach Labs, you'll solve problems that didn't exist five years ago alongside people who believe the simplest solutions often require the most sophisticated thinking. Your work will run in production at some of the most innovative companies in the world. The people who thrive here are the ones who want to own that opportunity.
The Migrations team owns the full suite of MOLT (Migrate Off Legacy Technology) tooling: Convert, Fetch, Replicator, and Verify. We also recently launched the Migration Assistant, which brings the individual MOLT tools together into a single migration workflow which guides customers through moving their databases to CockroachDB and Cockroach Continuum. We're looking for a staff software...
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