Director, Engineering (India Site Lead)

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 enable every developer to build world-changing applications!

Cockroach Labs is excited to expand its efforts to India! We’re looking for a Director of Engineering and Site Leader to build a team of talented engineers and be the in-region contact point for the health, growth, and success of the Roachers in the geographic region and fuel Cockroach Labs’ growth. As an engineering leader, you will help our engineers create technically sophisticated and innovative products and features and grow their skills and make an impact. You will collaborate across departments and teams to accomplish shared goals. This is a unique opportunity to be the site leader and drive the creation of a hub for technical talent in India for Cockroach Labs. A successful candidate will work with various leaders across the organization to ensure their need for engineering talent is met, and the team delivers outstanding value.

• Build and lead a team of Software Engineers based in Bangalore, India.
• Develop a high-performing team by pursuing performance excellence through shared goals, shared leadership across the organization, collaboration, open communication, clear role expectations, and group operating rules with a strong sense of accountability and trust.
• Recommend improvements into overall best practices, design, testability and quality, and productivity.
• Leverage data to analyze, interpret and solve business problems.
• Communicate effectively across teams and at all levels of the organization, from engineers up through the Cockroach Labs management team, including Engineering, Product, and Customer Success.
• Define plans and quarterly OKRs to execute against key objectives and roadmap.
• Provide site leadership and oversight over engineers and technical support engineers working in various engineering departments and in-region employees. 
• Collaborate with Facilities and Corporate Engineering partners to ensure that all in-region teams have the resources to work effectively from the office and home.
• Organize team-building for all in-region employees and other learning events to engage and grow the team.
• Design and track collaboration, learning, inclusion & growth of the team.
• Work with Facilities and HR to comply with all workplace security and HR policies and procedures (like COVID-19 restrictions).
• Coordinate employee recruitment campaigns and strategy with Recruiting.
• Establish relationships with local universities to build and drive an effective intern program.
• Represent Cockroach Labs in the local technical communities in India (City TBD).
• Maintain and adhere to the departmental budget.

In your first 30 days, it is essential for you to become an integrated member across teams at Cockroach Labs. You will become an integrated member of our engineering team. You will build a strong understanding of Cockroach Labs’ business so you can successfully serve as the single contact point in the region, working to ensure that the region is prosperous as a whole.

After 3 months, you will be fully integrated into the team. You will play an active role in building the Site by working with Recruiting to actively source candidates from the region, recruit and engage in other candidate outreach activities such as meetups. You will work closely with recruiters, hiring managers, and the appropriate execs to ensure that we hire great roachers in their region. You will help sell the culture and mission of Cockroach Labs to candidates as needed. Lastly, you will start taking on your first few direct reports as you have a solid grasp of our product roadmap and priority projects.

After 6 months, you’ll be up to managing a team of 6-8 engineers and starting to grow the team yourself. You will be making sure that each member of your team is working on projects that align with both our needs and their interests. You will be actively involved in a broad set of activities in coordination with People, Management, Engineering, and Customer Success, working at the interface of in-region Roachers and the rest of the organization. 

Note: If Cockroach decides to have a physical office, you will assist the Facilities team in locating, opening, and managing the in-region physical office. You are accountable for ensuring that a remote location is integrated into the Cockroach culture as a culture add, contributing their unique perspectives, ideas, and culture to the overall Cockroach culture.

• A passion for building relationships and are responsible for the welfare of the engineering team you manage, including their professional development and growth. We're looking for managers that want to empower the team to achieve their professional and personal goals.
• Proven experience managing people and creating the environment to keep them engaged.
• Experience working on complex technical products and have exposure to distributed systems, concurrency control, data replication, file systems, or SQL processing.
• A passion for programming languages; we use Go in the database and server-side and TypeScript/React on the frontend.
• A solid product architecture knowledge and grasp of how a variety of teams interactions’ may impact it.
• A strong knowledge and application of performance management processes, understanding the importance of building an effective, high-performing team that can function independently while collaborating and supporting each other.
• Proven experience in navigating, influencing, and partnering across departments, ensuring strong coordination with internal teams (e.g., with Customer Success; Marketing; Product).
• Willingness to “roll up the sleeves” and support the in-region team where needed.
• Experience working with diverse teams in multiple geographies.
• You have excellent written, verbal, and listening communication skills (Fluency in English).
• 15+ years of experience working in software engineering organizations.
• 8+ years of Engineering leadership, including hiring and leading leaders.

VP of Engineering

Isaac is responsible for the health of the engineering organization at Cockroach Labs. He partners closely with teams to ensure we have a balanced culture that promotes quality and innovation in pursuit of our goals. Before joining Cockroach Labs Isaac was in life sciences for 16 years with Medidata Solutions where he had a front-row seat on the exciting ride from a 30 person startup to more than 2000 people worldwide. But the lure of distributed, resilient, and consistent SQL databases, along with the amazing technology and culture at Cockroach Labs proved too much. When not working he likes to draw, play the piano, and search NYC for cannoli's with his wife and kids.

• 100% health insurance coverage (for you and your dependents!)
• Paid parental leave (with baby bucks)
• Flex Fridays
• Flexible time off & flexible hours
• Education reimbursement
• Relocation support

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].