Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Cockroach Labs (New York, NY)

Databases are the beating heart of every business in the world.

Cockroach Labs is the team behind CockroachDB, an open source, distributed SQL database. We strive to build infrastructure that keeps pace with the world, so developers can focus on what matters most: building the best products. Come and join us on our mission to Make Data Easy. Are you ready to aim high and build to last?

The Role

We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join our team and focus on keeping CockroachDB up and running across the world.

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• You will take ownership of our production systems, specifically deployment, monitoring, and some debugging.
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• You will keep our database available, ensuring reliability, scalability and performance. You will tackle problems relating to critical services and prevent problem recurrence.
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• You will automate processes, streamline delivery, deploy new core functionality, and build tools that are a joy to use. You'll focus on the goal of automating responses to all non-exceptional service conditions.
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• You will work on service capacity management, demand forecasting, software performance analysis, and system tuning.
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• You'll drive the company through disaster recovery tests, where we manually turn down sections of CockroachDB to test its overall resiliency to failures.
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The Expectations

In your first 30 days, you will become an integrated member of our engineering team and begin work on the reliability and automation challenges that we're currently facing related to CockroachDB's stability. We believe that it's important to take this first month to become familiar with our technology and our company.

After 3 months, you'll be fully integrated into the team. You will be comfortable digging through our infrastructure to diagnose and tackle problems. You will start an on-call rotation so that we can address any critical issues and minimize downtime for our open-source users, customers, and partners.

As our team grows, you will have the opportunity to influence and build new designs, architectures, standards and methods for CockroachDB. We want our users to have a phenomenal experience using CockroachDB, and you are part of that, making sure that our clusters are as close to 100% uptime as possible.

You

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• You love analyzing, monitoring, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
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• You have extensive knowledge of networking and operating systems (e.g. processes, threads, concurrency).
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• You are comfortable using programming languages like Go, C++, Java, Python, Ruby, and scripting languages like Shell and Perl. You're interested in learning and using kubernetes on the infrastructure side.
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• You're familiar with algorithms, data structures, and complexity analysis.
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• You love building relationships with your colleagues. You enjoy being part of the code review process and collaborating with your teammates on challenging problems.
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Cockroach Labs is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer building a diverse and inclusive workforce. If you need additional accommodations to feel comfortable during your interview process, please email us at accessibility@cockroachlabs.com.

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