Member of Technical Staff, Storage

Cockroach Labs

. Shape and build CockroachDB’s storage systems .

Posted 11/10/2026full-timeUnited StatesLead💰 $180,000 - $238,100 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive experience in building and maintaining complex distributed systems and storage software, with a strong focus on performance, scalability, and operational simplicity. Proficient in systems programming languages and capable of leading design initiatives while mentoring engineering teams.

Highest-signal resume keywords

Distributed Systems DevelopmentStorage Systems EngineeringProduction-Ready Coding in Go, Rust, or C/C++Concurrency Control and Data ReplicationLarge-Scale Systems Debugging

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Hard Skills

Distributed SystemsStorage SoftwareConcurrency ControlFile SystemsData ReplicationI/O PerformanceMemory ManagementLog-Structured Merge-TreesBlob StorageCloud Object Storage

Soft Skills

CollaborationMentoringDesign Review

Tools & Technologies

CockroachDBPebblePlenumAI Software Development

Industry Keywords

Storage SystemsCloud EnvironmentsEncryption at RestOperational SimplicityRolling Upgrades

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed SystemsRustC++Go

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Shape and build CockroachDB’s storage systems
Develop and maintain Pebble, an LSM-tree storage engine for MVCC data
Develop and maintain Plenum, an elastic, disaggregated storage layer
Work on encryption at rest, storage interfaces, and cloud environments
Lead the design and delivery of significant Storage initiatives
Make tradeoffs among durability, performance, scalability, cost, and operational simplicity
Collaborate with engineering, product, database, cloud, support, and field engineering teams
Conduct design reviews and mentor engineers
Help the team leverage AI to produce high-quality software
Ship scalable, survivable, and consistent mission-critical software
Establish relationships and learn the Storage domain and CockroachDB architecture
Participate in the Storage on-call rotation

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years building complex distributed systems or storage software
Significant experience with distributed systems, concurrency control, file systems, data replication, I/O performance, or memory management
Experience building or evolving storage systems such as log-structured merge-trees, blob storage, or cloud object storage
Experience building, running, and debugging large-scale distributed systems in production
Experience evolving systems through rolling upgrades
Production-ready coding in systems programming languages such as Go, Rust, or C/C++
Ability to investigate difficult bugs, profiles, and incidents
No educational credential specified

Benefits

Comp & perks

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
401(k) contribution match in the U.S.