Member of Technical Staff; Performance Engineering

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.

• Increase our performance coverage and understanding of Cockroach DB
• 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

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 Cockroach DB. 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.

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

Reporting to Stan Rosenberg – Director of Engineering

• 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.