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Cockroach Labs

cockroachlabs.com · software industry · Cockroach Labs develops CockroachDB and Cockroach Continuum, an agentic database cloud-native, distributed SQL database designed for extreme resilience, seamless horizontal scaling, and global deployment.

15open roles
2new in 30 days
4closed in 30 days
2remote-eligible
slowinghiring velocity

What they're building

Cockroach Continuum go-to-market across regions strong signal

Today: Cockroach Continuum, a new product built on CockroachDB that runs fully managed on AWS, Google Cloud or Azure; site pricing applies to new deployments from September 15, 2026 (company site)

Roles: Account Executive, Northeast · Sales Development Representative · Strategy and Operations Manager, GTM - EMEA · Sales Development Representative, Singapore · Senior Staff Sales Engineer, Australia · Value Engineer, Solutions Engineering

Requirements mention: Cockroach Continuum (listed in requirements of 6 Sales-department roles) · technical fluency in CockroachDB (Sales Development Representative, Singapore) · CockroachDB integrations (Senior Staff Sales Engineer, Australia) · legacy RDBMS, NoSQL, managed cloud (Value Engineer, Solutions Engineering)

Inference: six Sales roles across five locations (New York, Austin, London, Singapore, Australia) list Cockroach Continuum as a requirement. This suggests sales capacity is being added to sell Continuum. It is read from the postings only.

Specialized indexing and AI-workload features in CockroachDB moderate signal

Today: CockroachDB, a distributed SQL database that speaks the PostgreSQL wire protocol (company site)

Roles: Member of Technical Staff (Senior - Specialized Indexing) · Staff Product Marketing Manager, Developer Experience

Requirements mention: vector indexing · full-text · geospatial indexing · hybrid search · RAG · vector search · agent memory

Inference: an engineering role building vector, full-text and geospatial indexes, plus a product marketing role asking for RAG, vector search and agent memory, suggests these capabilities are being positioned for developers building AI applications. The indexing role has been open since November 2025.

Partner ecosystem moderate signal

Today: CockroachDB and Cockroach Continuum (company site)

Roles: Principal Partner Solutions Architect · Sr. Partner Marketing Manager

Requirements mention: technical partner strategy · reference implementations · partner launch playbooks · joint GTM programs

Inference: one technical and one marketing partner role suggest joint go-to-market work with partners. The postings do not name which partners.

Storage engine work underneath CockroachDB weak signal

Today: CockroachDB, described on the site as trusted by those who do not accept downtime

Roles: Member of Technical Staff (Storage)

Requirements mention: Pebble · Log Structured Merge (LSM) Tree · concurrency control · data replication

No next step is inferred. The posting describes ongoing work on Pebble, the storage engine under CockroachDB. It is one role, open since February 2026.

Corporate security controls for AI tools and agents weak signal

Today: Internal function; not described in the company site text provided

Roles: Sr. Corporate Security Engineer

Requirements mention: AI governance · DLP · CASB · SaaS security tools

No next step is inferred. One Engineering role is the only signal.

Where the headcount is going

DepartmentOpen
Sales6
Engineering3
Marketing2
Finance1
People1
Product1
Applications (General)1

18 listings (17 specific roles plus a general talent community), with Sales the largest department at 8 and New York, NY the main hub.

Who they need

Seniority: 11 of 18 are senior level or above: 7 senior, 2 staff, 1 principal, 1 director. There are also 3 manager, 1 mid, 1 junior, 1 intern and 1 unspecified.

Skills named most: Cockroach Continuum, CockroachDB, distributed systems, Salesforce CRM, Salesforce CPQ, lead qualification, financial modeling, SQL, Python, Go, C/C++, Claude Code

Locations: New York, NY is the largest location with 8 roles listed there alone and 4 more listing New York alongside San Mateo, CA, Austin, TX or London, UK. Other roles are in Austin, TX, London, UK and Bangalore, India. Two roles are remote, tied to Singapore and Australia as given in the postings.

How to use this

If you're applying: Sales is the largest department at 8 of 18 listings, and most roles are senior level or above. Expect questions about using AI tools: postings across Finance, Sales, People and Engineering ask for AI fluency, AI-assisted workflows or AI tools. Check the stated location for each role, especially Singapore, Australia and Bangalore.

If you're selling or recruiting: Sales has 8 of 18 listings, 6 of them requiring Cockroach Continuum knowledge, and 8 roles are New York-only. Openings fell from 8 in the prior 30 days to 2 in the last 30 days, with none closed, so the velocity flag is slowing.

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Open roles (15)

TitleDepartmentLocationPosted
Manager, Technical Support (APAC)EngineeringBangalore, India2026-10-12
Sr. Corporate Security EngineerEngineeringNew York, NY2026-10-05
Director, FP&AFinanceNew York, NY; San Mateo, CA2026-09-17
Principal Partner Solutions ArchitectSalesNew York, NY; San Mateo, CA2026-09-10
Executive Administrative Partner to the CEOPeopleNew York, NY2026-09-03
Staff Product Marketing Manager, Developer ExperienceProductNew York, NY2026-08-26
Sr. Partner Marketing ManagerMarketingNew York, NY2026-08-25
Strategy and Operations Manager, GTM - EMEASalesLondon, UK2026-08-25
Sales Development Representative, SingaporeSalesRemote, Singapore (remote)2026-08-20
Senior Staff Sales Engineer, AustraliaSalesRemote, Australia (remote)2026-08-10
Deal Desk Manager, AMERSalesNew York, NY2026-07-28
Marketing Operations ManagerMarketingAustin, TX; New York, NY2026-07-15
Value Engineer, Solutions EngineeringSalesLondon, UK; New York, NY2026-06-05
Member of Technical Staff (Senior - Specialized Indexing)EngineeringBangalore, India2025-11-27
Join our Talent Community!Applications (General)Global2021-01-12