Sr. Engineering Manager, Key Value (KV)

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Median wage (BLS OEWS)

$116,543 national median

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+9.8% - Much faster than average

117% above the BLS national median for software engineering aggregate.

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

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About this role

Sr. Engineering Manager, Key Value (KV) New York, NY Category-defining tech. Career-defining work. Lots of tech companies disrupt. But, many fail when they try to scale. We're different. CockroachDB makes it easier for companies to build and scale apps. This is how and why we're helping some of the most innovative companies on the planet. We tackle problems head-on and focus on solutions that create lasting impact. Because when our customers win, we all win. The Role Every transaction CockroachDB handles - billions a day, across global banks, payments networks, retailers, and SaaS platforms - moves through the Key Value (KV) layer of the database. This includes CockroachDB's distributed transaction protocol, its replication layer (which uses Raft consensus), and its data placement allocator. The primitives on top of which CockroachDB is built. You'll lead the team that owns this layer: around ten engineers working across multiple time zones, working on the fundamentals behind many of the headline features in recent CockroachDB releases - Leader Leases (a recent SIGMOD 2026 industry track paper), Buffered Writes, Read Committed transaction isolation. The KV team's work is technically dense, broad in scope, and interfaces with essentially every other Engineering team at Cockroach Labs. We're looking for an experienced engineering manager who can keep a savvy engineering team aligned across a complex, deeply technical, multi-project roadmap. You Will - Lead the team. Manage projects, coach engineers, run the performance and growth process, and hire to maintain the technical bar and culture as the team evolves.

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