Staff Enterprise Architect

Role Overview

• Own and deliver expert technical guidance and assistance to our customers during their planning, design, testing, migration, and implementation efforts as they modernize both their legacy SQL applications and new, next generation applications.
• Utilize your deep technical skills to provide measurable value to customers and drive sales growth.
• Educate customers on the unique capabilities of CockroachDB and design solutions to meet a wide variety of challenges.
• Drive adoption and implementation of Cockroach Labs tools/features by leading requirements and design sessions, migration analysis and strategy, performance analysis and tuning, hands-on product and technical workshop sessions.
• Need to learn new technologies constantly and quickly in order to keep pace with customer environments.
• As a member of the Revenue organization, you will partner with members of the Sales and Customer Success teams in driving new business opportunities and expanding adoption in existing customer organizations.
• Develop and implement best practices, processes and tools which can continually enhance Cockroach Labs’s Professional Services offerings.

Requirements

• 8+ years of relevant experience.
• Strong experience writing, developing and presenting technical content for external audiences.
• A mix of skills that can include an in-depth knowledge of databases (particularly relational, SQL-based), distributed systems, public cloud systems, containers and VM, orchestration tools, linux systems for benchmarking, and modern enterprise software architecture and development.
• Technical knowledge of enterprise applications, platforms, and data ecosystem, with the ability to go deep on technical aspects in order to understand current and future customer needs and present CockroachDB technical benefits.
• Experience in designing and building cloud-based deployment infrastructures.
• Experience as a software engineer with in-depth and practical experience working with a relational database.
• Expertise in analyzing, monitoring, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience in shell programming and scripting (i.e., Bash). Software development using one or more of the following: Go, C, C++, Python, Java is a plus.
• Proficiency working with algorithms, data structures, and production troubleshooting.
• Expertise in working with major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) and Cloud APIs.
• Debugged and optimized code as part of your work delivering a scalable, event driven microservice based application.
• Experience building collaborative relationships with your colleagues. You enjoy being part of the review process and partnering with your teammates on challenging problems.
• 1-3+ years of experience as a Technical Architect with a proven success record.
• 1-3+ years of experience as an Engineer architecting a modern enterprise software application, such as Domain Driven Design and Event-based architectures.
• A degree in Computer Science or other technical qualification.

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• Distributed Systems
• Google Cloud Platform
• Java
• Linux
• Python
• SQL
• Go

Benefits

• 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
• 401(k) Plan
• Mental Wellbeing Benefits
• And more!