Member of Technical Staff (Senior - Specialized Indexing)

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Skills you'll use

What you'll do

• Design, build, and maintain specialized indexing features for CockroachDB, including vector , full-text, and geospatial indexing.
• 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.
• The Expectations
• In your first month , you’ll get familiar with CockroachDB’s SQL architecture, vector indexing implementation, and the surrounding systems. You’ll also begin contributing to smaller improvements and fixes.
• Within three months , you’ll take ownership of components related to specialized indexing, making measurable improvements to performance and reliability.
• After six months , you’ll play a key role in advancing hybrid search capabilities and help shape the roadmap for future indexing and search features.

Who can apply

• Experience working on indexing or query execution systems such as vector, text, or spatial search.
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems .
• Curiosity about AI-driven and hybrid workloads that combine structured and unstructured data.
• A focus on building reliable, maintainable, and high-performance software.
• Collaborative mindset and ability to work effectively with a distributed global team.
• Typically 10+ years of experience building large-scale, production-grade systems.
• Demonstrated ability to translate ambiguous problems into scalable, production-grade AI-enabled solutions.
• A builder's instinct for reuse and extensibility — your output becomes a platform, pattern, or capability others depend on.

Perks & benefits

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