Member of Technical Staff (Senior - Specialized Indexing)

About the role

The SQL Queries team is responsible for the core of CockroachDB’s query execution and optimization layer. This group designs and delivers features that make our distributed SQL engine fast, reliable, and flexible for a wide range of workloads. AI is transforming how we search, learn, and build, and databases are evolving to keep up.

What you'll do

• Improve the performance and reliability of existing vector indexing systems, including backfill, query planning, and import workflows
• Partner with other database teams to integrate new indexing mechanisms into the query engine
• Develop hybrid search capabilities that combine vector similarity and text-based search for modern AI and search workloads
• Participate in design discussions, code reviews, and release planning within the SQL organization
• Take full ownership of your work, from design through implementation, testing, and release

What you need

• 10–18 yrs of experience
• Data structures
• SQL
• Any graduate

Good to have

• C++
• Go
• C
• Rust