Member of Technical Staff (Performance Engineering)

Join Cockroach Labs as a Member of Technical Staff in Performance Engineering. You will work closely with engineers to evaluate database performance, perform root cause analysis, and guide other teams. This is a high-impact role that connects engineering, product, and marketing. Ideal candidates have experience with complex codebases, databases, distributed systems, and performance analysis.

• Increase performance coverage and understanding of CockroachDB, develop new workload strategies and methodologies.
• Investigate performance issues, perform competitive benchmarks, and guide other teams on benchmarking and performance testing methodologies.
• Build automation tools and frameworks, translate customers’ workloads to automated performance tests.
• Desired experience level ranges from mid to staff level. At a minimum, this role requires:
• 5+ years of experience as a performance engineer
• Exceptional communication (oral and written) skills and a collaborative mindset
• MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer writing clean, idiomatic code
• 1+ years of hands on experience with GCP, AWS, or Azure