Cockroach Labs jobs

Sr. Technical Partner Marketing Manager New York, NY Category-defining tech. Career-defining work. The next era of software won't operate at human scale. Applications will create applications. Systems will coordinate with systems. Data and decisions will move faster than teams can react to them. The infrastructure powering that world cannot be fragile, reactive, or limited by the assumptions of the past. Cockroach Labs exists to build what comes next - before the world requires it. We created CockroachDB to survive failures, scale without compromise, and adapt to changing conditions automatically. Now we're helping define a future where complexity fades into the background and infrastructure simply works, no matter the scale. This is the kind of challenge that attracts people who want to shape industries, not just participate in them. The work is ambitious, the standards are high, and the impact is real. The Role We're hiring a Technical Partner Marketing Manager to help shape and amplify the narrative across CockroachDB's partner and ISV ecosystem. We're looking for someone with strong partner marketing experience, a clear point of view on modern infrastructure and AI, and the ability to build credibility across social channels, developer communities, and industry events. Reporting to the Head of Corporate Marketing, you'll work closely with partner engineering, alliances, and product marketing to turn integrations and technical work into compelling content, thought leadership, developer programs, and go-to-market campaigns that drive awareness and adoption. You'll help turn partner integrations and technical innovation into stories developers and technical buyers actually care

Strategy & Operations Manager, GTM New York, NY Category-defining tech. Career-defining work. The next era of software won't operate at human scale. Applications will create applications. Systems will coordinate with systems. Data and decisions will move faster than teams can react to them. The infrastructure powering that world cannot be fragile, reactive, or limited by the assumptions of the past. Cockroach Labs exists to build what comes next - before the world requires it. We created CockroachDB to survive failures, scale without compromise, and adapt to changing conditions automatically. Now we're helping define a future where complexity fades into the background and infrastructure simply works, no matter the scale. This is the kind of challenge that attracts people who want to shape industries, not just participate in them. The work is ambitious, the standards are high, and the impact is real. The Role GTM Operations is a small, high-intensity team at the center of Cockroach Labs' revenue transformation. As a Strategy & Ops Manager on this team, you'll work at the intersection of data, AI, and GTM execution -- building the analytical frameworks, agentic workflows, and operational programs that reshape how we create pipeline, accelerate deals, forecast revenue, and expand customer relationships. This role requires real technical fluency. You'll query databases, build financial models, design AI-powered workflows, and measure their impact, all in service of transforming how our revenue organization operates. If you thrive in ambiguity, move faster than the organization expects, and believe the best strategy is one that

VP, Demand Generation & Marketing Operations New York, NY Category-defining tech. Career-defining work. The next era of software won't operate at human scale. Applications will create applications. Systems will coordinate with systems. Data and decisions will move faster than teams can react to them. The infrastructure powering that world cannot be fragile, reactive, or limited by the assumptions of the past. Cockroach Labs exists to build what comes next - before the world requires it. We created CockroachDB to survive failures, scale without compromise, and adapt to changing conditions automatically. Now we're helping define a future where complexity fades into the background and infrastructure simply works, no matter the scale. This is the kind of challenge that attracts people who want to shape industries, not just participate in them. The work is ambitious, the standards are high, and the impact is real. The Role Cockroach Labs is hiring a Vice President of Demand Generation & Marketing Operations to lead a unified function that combines pipeline creation, marketing operations, and agentic-led account programs under one team. This is a new role created as part of a broader marketing transformation. You will own everything from digital demand generation and campaign execution to the operational infrastructure, automation platform, and data pipelines that power the marketing engine. This leadership position demands a systems thinker who can tie together demand gen strategy, marketing technology, AI-powered workflows, and a growing account-play motion into a single operating model. A key aspect of this role involves working closely

Director of Compensation and Equity 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 The Director of Compensation and Equity is a high-impact individual contributor role responsible for designing and executing Cockroach Labs' compensation strategy across base salary, variable pay, and equity. Reporting to the Sr. Director, People Operations & Development, this person will serve as the company's subject matter expert on compensation and equity partnering directly with senior leaders, HR Business Partners, and front-line managers to ensure our compensation programs are competitive, equitable, and built to scale. This role requires both strong analytical rigor and the ability to execute independently across the full compensation and equity lifecycle. We are looking for someone who brings deep expertise and genuine curiosity about how AI is reshaping what a single great practitioner can accomplish. You Will - Own the design and ongoing refinement of Cockroach Labs' global compensation philosophy, salary structures, and pay bands across all functions and levels, and lead annual review cycles -- merit, promotion, and equity refresh -- with rigor and consistency - Evaluate the effectiveness of incentive and variable pay programs, surfacing recommendations grounded in market

Lab Technician, Molecular Biology Lausanne | OnSite Adaptyv is building an automated lab thats let AI agents run biology experiments. We're entering the era of agentic science where AI models can now design novel proteins, propose hypotheses, and iterate on experimental results. But they can't run the experiments themselves - that's still a manual, months-long process. We're building the infrastructure that gives AI agents access to the physical world. We are one of the fastest growing biotech companies, trusted by leading biopharmas, frontier AI labs, and the techbio companies pushing the field forward. This is a rare chance to help advance some of the most important work happening in biotech today. Our automated lab is powered by a deep software + hardware stack: lab instruments worth millions of USD reverse-engineered into API-controllable hardware, dozens of devices orchestrated through complex workflows, full observability on everything that happens in the lab, processing pipelines for messy physical-world data, and AI systems that troubleshoot production results and accelerate assay development. We're growing rapidly and are hiring for talented people to scale and support the massive demand for AI-driven wet lab experimentation. ABOUT THE ROLE We're looking for a skilled Lab Technician to join our Biology team. You'll run our molecular biology and protein production workflows - cloning, transformation, expression, and purification - keeping high-quality, reproducible output flowing to support our protein engineering pipeline. You'll work hands-on with automation and liquid handling, helping turn manual protocols into reliable, high-throughput processes. RESPONSIBILITIES - Perform molecular cloning

Community Manager Lausanne / Hybrid / Remote | Hybrid | Remote Adaptyv is building an automated lab thats let AI agents run biology experiments. We're entering the era of agentic science where AI models can now design novel proteins, propose hypotheses, and iterate on experimental results. But they can't run the experiments themselves - that's still a manual, months-long process. We're building the infrastructure that gives AI agents access to the physical world. We are one of the fastest growing biotech companies, trusted by leading biopharmas, frontier AI labs, and the techbio companies pushing the field forward. This is a rare chance to help advance some of the most important work happening in biotech today. Our automated lab is powered by a deep software + hardware stack: lab instruments worth millions of USD reverse-engineered into API-controllable hardware, dozens of devices orchestrated through complex workflows, full observability on everything that happens in the lab, processing pipelines for messy physical-world data, and AI systems that troubleshoot production results and accelerate assay development. We're growing rapidly and are hiring for talented people to scale and support the massive demand for AI-driven wet lab experimentation. ABOUT THE ROLE You'll be the person who makes sure Adaptyv shows up well in public, every day. That means managing our social presence across X and LinkedIn, running the Proteinbase https://proteinbase.com community, owning the participant side of our open competitions and hackathons, and triaging inbound community and customer messages. Whatever it takes to keep our community-facing surface area

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.

Forward Deployed Scientist Lausanne / Hybrid / Remote | Hybrid | Remote Adaptyv is building an automated lab thats let AI agents run biology experiments. We're entering the era of agentic science where AI models can now design novel proteins, propose hypotheses, and iterate on experimental results. But they can't run the experiments themselves - that's still a manual, months-long process. We're building the infrastructure that gives AI agents access to the physical world. We are one of the fastest growing biotech companies, trusted by leading biopharmas, frontier AI labs, and the techbio companies pushing the field forward. This is a rare chance to help advance some of the most important work happening in biotech today. Our automated lab is powered by a deep software + hardware stack: lab instruments worth millions of USD reverse-engineered into API-controllable hardware, dozens of devices orchestrated through complex workflows, full observability on everything that happens in the lab, processing pipelines for messy physical-world data, and AI systems that troubleshoot production results and accelerate assay development. We're growing rapidly and are hiring for talented people to scale and support the massive demand for AI-driven wet lab experimentation. ABOUT THE ROLE You're a scientist on staff who works shoulder-to-shoulder with customers to help them design better proteins and get more out of every experiment. You sit between their design models and our lab: helping them scope a campaign, pick the right design approach for the problem, make sense of the data that comes back, and decide

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Lab Automation Engineer Lausanne | OnSite Adaptyv is building an automated lab thats let AI agents run biology experiments. We're entering the era of agentic science where AI models can now design novel proteins, propose hypotheses, and iterate on experimental results. But they can't run the experiments themselves - that's still a manual, months-long process. We're building the infrastructure that gives AI agents access to the physical world. We are one of the fastest growing biotech companies, trusted by leading biopharmas, frontier AI labs, and the techbio companies pushing the field forward. This is a rare chance to help advance some of the most important work happening in biotech today. Our automated lab is powered by a deep software + hardware stack: lab instruments worth millions of USD reverse-engineered into API-controllable hardware, dozens of devices orchestrated through complex workflows, full observability on everything that happens in the lab, processing pipelines for messy physical-world data, and AI systems that troubleshoot production results and accelerate assay development. We're growing rapidly and are hiring for talented people to scale and support the massive demand for AI-driven wet lab experimentation. ABOUT THE ROLE We build our lab automation ourselves. Instead of buying turnkey systems and running them through a vendor's GUI, we reverse-engineer instruments, control them with open-source Python tooling like PyLabRobot and PyHamilton, and build the software and hardware to turn a pile of instruments into work cells that run biology around the clock. We're looking for a Lab Automation Engineer to help

AI Researcher New York, NY, United States About Traversal Traversal is the AI Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) for the enterprise-already trusted by some of the largest companies in the world to troubleshoot, remediate, and even prevent the most complex production incidents. Our mission is to free engineers from endless firefighting and enable them to focus on creative, high-impact work. Our roots remain deeply embedded in AI research, and we're channeling that scientific rigor and creativity into building the premier AI agent lab for the enterprise. Hence, what we're proudest of is assembling the most talented yet nicest group of individuals, including researchers from MIT, Harvard, and Berkeley, to world-class engineers from industry: Citadel Securities, Cockroach Labs, Datadog, DE Shaw, ServiceNow, Glean, Perplexity, Pinecone, and more, to take on one of the hardest problems for AI to solve. Without the entire team, none of this would be possible. The Role As an AI Researcher at Traversal, you'll work on improving the accuracy and speed of our agents - systems that autonomously diagnose and resolve production incidents for some of the world's largest enterprises. This is a hands-on, production-oriented research role. You will design experiments, run them on real data, and ship improvements. Not flag them - ship them. You'll work end-to-end: identify a failure mode in agent reasoning, design an intervention, evaluate it against real customer traces, and get it into production. The tooling and infrastructure are in place. The research problem is hard. The feedback loop is fast. This is

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Enterprise Account Executive - West Remote, United States About Traversal Traversal is the AI Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) for the enterprise-already trusted by some of the largest companies in the world to troubleshoot, remediate, and even prevent the most complex production incidents. Our mission is to free engineers from endless firefighting and enable them to focus on creative, high-impact work. Our roots remain deeply embedded in AI research, and we're channeling that scientific rigor and creativity into building the premier AI agent lab for the enterprise. Hence, what we're proudest of is assembling the most talented yet nicest group of individuals, including researchers from MIT, Harvard, and Berkeley, to world-class engineers from industry: Citadel Securities, Cockroach Labs, Datadog, DE Shaw, ServiceNow, Glean, Perplexity, Pinecone, and more, to take on one of the hardest problems for AI to solve. Without the entire team, none of this would be possible. The Role As an Enterprise Account Executive at Traversal, you'll lead our early-stage sales efforts and build our GTM engine from the ground up. You will own the full sales cycle, from strategic prospecting to closing, while defining the playbook for our agentic observability platform. You'll partner closely with our founders and Sales Engineering team, you will navigate complex technical evaluations and guide prospects through high-impact proof-of-concepts. We are looking for a high-ownership individual who can translate deep technical value into business outcomes for SREs, platform teams, and engineering leaders. If you have a proven track record in developer tools and thrive

Head of Cloud Security New York, NY, United States About Traversal Traversal is the AI Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) for the enterprise-already trusted by some of the largest companies in the world to troubleshoot, remediate, and even prevent the most complex production incidents. Our mission is to free engineers from endless firefighting and enable them to focus on creative, high-impact work. Our roots remain deeply embedded in AI research, and we're channeling that scientific rigor and creativity into building the premier AI agent lab for the enterprise. Hence, what we're proudest of is assembling the most talented yet nicest group of individuals, including researchers from MIT, Harvard, and Berkeley, to world-class engineers from industry: Citadel Securities, Cockroach Labs, Datadog, DE Shaw, ServiceNow, Glean, Perplexity, Pinecone, and more, to take on one of the hardest problems for AI to solve. Without the entire team, none of this would be possible. The Role This is a Staff-level Security Engineer hire and the first person at Traversal to own application security and cloud security end-to-end. We're looking for someone who can assess our current security posture, identify gaps, chart a roadmap, and implement fixes, tooling, and processes to make Traversal's security best-in-class. You'll be working on a platform that ingests sensitive production data from enterprise customers across some of the world's most complex environments. What you build here becomes Traversal's security foundation as we scale toward a Series B and beyond. This is a hands-on engineering role with real ownership and organization-wide impact.

Intern, Protein Design Lausanne / Hybrid / Remote | Hybrid | Remote Adaptyv is building an automated lab thats let AI agents run biology experiments. We're entering the era of agentic science where AI models can now design novel proteins, propose hypotheses, and iterate on experimental results. But they can't run the experiments themselves - that's still a manual, months-long process. We're building the infrastructure that gives AI agents access to the physical world. We are one of the fastest growing biotech companies, trusted by leading biopharmas, frontier AI labs, and the techbio companies pushing the field forward. This is a rare chance to help advance some of the most important work happening in biotech today. Our automated lab is powered by a deep software + hardware stack: lab instruments worth millions of USD reverse-engineered into API-controllable hardware, dozens of devices orchestrated through complex workflows, full observability on everything that happens in the lab, processing pipelines for messy physical-world data, and AI systems that troubleshoot production results and accelerate assay development. We're growing rapidly and are hiring for talented people to scale and support the massive demand for AI-driven wet lab experimentation. RESPONSIBILITIES - Run and benchmark open-source protein design methods on real Adaptyv targets, validated against experimental data from our wet lab. - Design binders for internal R&D campaigns, and track experimental performance across success rate, hit rate, kinetics, and developability. - Build computational tooling around the design pipeline: structure prediction, filtering, and ranking, to triage large design pools

Wetlab Protocol Specialist - Freelance AI Trainer Project United States of America Are you a master of wetlab protocols eager to shape the future of AI? Large‑scale language models are evolving from clever chatbots into powerful engines of scientific discovery. With high‑quality training data, tomorrow's AI can democratize world‑class education, optimize laboratory workflows, and enhance reproducibility in life science research. That training data begins with you-we need your expertise to help power the next generation of AI. We're looking for specialists who live and breathe wetlab techniques, protocol development, experimental design, sterile technique, reagent preparation, quality control, and biosafety practices. You'll challenge advanced language models on topics like PCR and qPCR protocols, cell culture methods, nucleic acid extraction, microscopy preparations, assay standardization, troubleshooting experiments, and lab safety procedures-documenting every failure mode so we can harden model reasoning. On a typical day, you will converse with the model on practical lab scenarios and theoretical protocol questions, verify factual accuracy and logical workflow, capture reproducible error traces, and suggest improvements to our prompt engineering and evaluation metrics. A PhD in molecular biology, microbiology, biochemistry, or a closely related life‑science field is ideal; peer‑reviewed publications, hands‑on experience in wetlab research, or clinical laboratory practice signal fit. Clear, metacognitive communication-“showing your work”-is essential. Ready to turn your wetlab protocol expertise into the knowledge base for tomorrow's AI? Apply today and start teaching the model that will teach the world. We offer a pay range of $8-to- $65 per hour, with the exact rate determined

Enterprise Account Executive - East Remote, United States About Traversal Traversal is the AI Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) for the enterprise-already trusted by some of the largest companies in the world to troubleshoot, remediate, and even prevent the most complex production incidents. Our mission is to free engineers from endless firefighting and enable them to focus on creative, high-impact work. Our roots remain deeply embedded in AI research, and we're channeling that scientific rigor and creativity into building the premier AI agent lab for the enterprise. Hence, what we're proudest of is assembling the most talented yet nicest group of individuals, including researchers from MIT, Harvard, and Berkeley, to world-class engineers from industry: Citadel Securities, Cockroach Labs, Datadog, DE Shaw, ServiceNow, Glean, Perplexity, Pinecone, and more, to take on one of the hardest problems for AI to solve. Without the entire team, none of this would be possible. The Role As an Enterprise Account Executive at Traversal, you'll lead our early-stage sales efforts and build our GTM engine from the ground up. You will own the full sales cycle, from strategic prospecting to closing, while defining the playbook for our agentic observability platform. You'll partner closely with our founders and Sales Engineering team, you will navigate complex technical evaluations and guide prospects through high-impact proof-of-concepts. We are looking for a high-ownership individual who can translate deep technical value into business outcomes for SREs, platform teams, and engineering leaders. If you have a proven track record in developer tools and thrive

Product Designer New York, NY, United States About Traversal Traversal is the AI Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) for the enterprise-already trusted by some of the largest companies in the world to troubleshoot, remediate, and even prevent the most complex production incidents. Our mission is to free engineers from endless firefighting and enable them to focus on creative, high-impact work. Our roots remain deeply embedded in AI research, and we're channeling that scientific rigor and creativity into building the premier AI agent lab for the enterprise. Hence, what we're proudest of is assembling the most talented yet nicest group of individuals, including researchers from MIT, Harvard, and Berkeley, to world-class engineers from industry: Citadel Securities, Cockroach Labs, Datadog, DE Shaw, ServiceNow, Glean, Perplexity, Pinecone, and more, to take on one of the hardest problems for AI to solve. Without the entire team, none of this would be possible. The Role As a Product Designer at Traversal, you'll shape how users experience-and trust-our agentic AI platform. You'll design the workflows, interfaces, and patterns that turn powerful AI systems into intuitive, high-leverage tools for engineers operating in high-pressure environments. This is a rare opportunity to join during a formative stage. Our core AI systems are maturing, our user base is expanding, and design is becoming central to how we scale. You'll drive the evolution of our design language, help formalize our rituals and operations, and play a foundational role in elevating the quality of the entire product. You will work closely with engineering,

Team Lead - Veterinary Laboratory Scientist Hamilton, New Zealand posted: Posted Yesterday

Solutions Engineer San Francisco, California, US About Traversal Traversal is the AI Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) for the enterprise-already trusted by some of the largest companies in the world to troubleshoot, remediate, and even prevent the most complex production incidents. Our mission is to free engineers from endless firefighting and enable them to focus on creative, high-impact work. Our roots remain deeply embedded in AI research, and we're channeling that scientific rigor and creativity into building the premier AI agent lab for the enterprise. Hence, what we're proudest of is assembling the most talented yet nicest group of individuals, including researchers from MIT, Harvard, and Berkeley, to world-class engineers from industry: Citadel Securities, Cockroach Labs, Datadog, DE Shaw, ServiceNow, Glean, Perplexity, Pinecone, and more, to take on one of the hardest problems for AI to solve. Without the entire team, none of this would be possible. The Role As a Solutions Engineer at Traversal, you'll help define how we engage with prospective customers, you'll guide them from initial technical discovery through successful deployment. This is a foundational, customer-facing role at the intersection of technical depth and relationship building. You'll collaborate with product and engineering to translate customer needs into compelling, customized pilot deployments that achieve high value for customers. You'll work closely with our CEO, CTO, GTM and Product teams to help scale founder-led sales into a repeatable process. You'll act as the technical voice in conversations with prospects, create resources to support go-to-market efforts, and relay insights back to

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Solutions Engineer/Deployment Strategist New York, NY, United States About Traversal Traversal is the AI Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) for the enterprise-already trusted by some of the largest companies in the world to troubleshoot, remediate, and even prevent the most complex production incidents. Our mission is to free engineers from endless firefighting and enable them to focus on creative, high-impact work. Our roots remain deeply embedded in AI research, and we're channeling that scientific rigor and creativity into building the premier AI agent lab for the enterprise. Hence, what we're proudest of is assembling the most talented yet nicest group of individuals, including researchers from MIT, Harvard, and Berkeley, to world-class engineers from industry: Citadel Securities, Cockroach Labs, Datadog, DE Shaw, ServiceNow, Glean, Perplexity, Pinecone, and more, to take on one of the hardest problems for AI to solve. Without the entire team, none of this would be possible. The Role As a Solutions Engineer / Deployment Strategist at Traversal, you'll shape how our AI-native infrastructure product is introduced and deployed inside modern engineering organizations. You'll guide prospects from initial technical discovery through pilot design, integration planning, and successful rollout. This is a foundational, customer-facing role at the intersection of technical depth, deployment design, and relationship building. You'll architect deployment pathways, assess customer environments, and define how Traversal lands and expands within complex enterprises. You'll partner closely with CEO, CTO, Product, Engineering, and GTM to translate customer needs into high-value pilot deployments and a repeatable sales motion. You'll serve as the

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Staff Full-Stack Product Engineer New York, NY, United States About Traversal Traversal is the AI Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) for the enterprise-already trusted by some of the largest companies in the world to troubleshoot, remediate, and even prevent the most complex production incidents. Our mission is to free engineers from endless firefighting and enable them to focus on creative, high-impact work. Our roots remain deeply embedded in AI research, and we're channeling that scientific rigor and creativity into building the premier AI agent lab for the enterprise. Hence, what we're proudest of is assembling the most talented yet nicest group of individuals, including researchers from MIT, Harvard, and Berkeley, to world-class engineers from industry: Citadel Securities, Cockroach Labs, Datadog, DE Shaw, ServiceNow, Glean, Perplexity, Pinecone, and more, to take on one of the hardest problems for AI to solve. Without the entire team, none of this would be possible. The Role As a Full-Stack AI Engineer at Traversal, you'll play a key role in designing and building the core product surfaces powered by our AI Site Reliability Engineer. This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy owning complex systems end-to-end-from user interface through backend services and infrastructure. You'll help translate advanced AI capabilities into reliable, production-grade product experiences used by engineers operating large-scale systems. The right person for this role combines strong product intuition with deep engineering judgment and is comfortable working across the stack, from distributed systems and data pipelines to highly interactive front-end applications. You'll partner closely with