Cockroach Labs is the creator of CockroachDB, the most highly evolved cloud-native, distributed SQL database on the planet that scales fast, survives anything, and thrives anywhere. We created CockroachDB to unshackle teams from the constraints of their database. Join us on our mission to simplify how businesses build and operate world-changing applications!
Cockroach Labs is looking for passionate individuals to support our cloud security efforts. This is a hands-on role where you’ll be working with different teams across the company on a variety of technical projects related to the security of our infrastructure and cloud solution. We are looking for creative individuals, capable of combining software and systems engineering to design, develop, and automate fault-tolerant security solutions. A successful candidate will combine the technical know-how with an empathetic and compassionate approach to engaging with the product and engineering teams across Cockroach Labs.
In this role, you’ll join a small but growing platform infrastructure security team, using your experience and skills to significantly influence the culture and practices for security engineering at Cockroach Labs.
In your first 30 days, you will become an integrated member of our engineering team. You’ll become familiar with our production systems, software development workflow, and application architecture for CockroachDB and CockroachCloud. We believe that it's essential for you to take this first month to become familiar with our technology and our company.
In your second month, you’ll focus on gaining familiarity with our security challenges, focusing on security challenges in both our cloud solution as well as in our overall system architecture and infrastructure. You’ll contribute to our engineering team security culture by preparing a security-focused presentation to the engineering team.
In your third month, you’ll become a point person for a major security project, taking direct ownership of a key solution and being a partner with the larger security and engineering organization to drive the project forward.
The qualifications below are ideal, but not all required. We strongly encourage candidates who do not have all the qualifications listed below to apply.
Reporting to Adam Brennick - Director of Security, Risk, and Compliance
Adam Brennick has a diverse background, having supported security and compliance efforts across companies in multiple industries. Prior to his security and compliance-focused work, he held program manager, project manager, and IT manager roles at larger organizations, including MobileIron, IGT, Flex, and Dell. When he is not working on securing Cockroach Labs, Adam enjoys spending time with his two young kids, golfing, and playing retro video games.
Reporting to Mike Geehan - Senior Director of Engineering
Mike Geehan is responsible for the safety and security of CockroachDB Cloud and surrounding infrastructure. Mike joined Cockroach Labs from a DC based start-up, and prior to that spent time in larger tech companies in a wide range of roles. Mike is focused on team development. Enabling and growing his team is paramount to the success of the team, and hence the business as a whole. Mike is based in Houston, Texas, and outside of work is focused on his family, his bikes, and in getting a cycling related non-profit organization off the ground.
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 [email protected].
The annual anticipated base salary range for U.S. candidates for this role is USD $174,000 to $230,000, plus commission if a sales role. 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. Salary is one component of the Cockroach Labs’ total rewards package, which includes stock options, health insurance, life and disability insurance, funds towards professional development resources, flexible PTO, paid holidays, and parental leave, to name a few! Salaries for candidates outside the U.S. will vary based on local compensation structures.
