Member of Technical Staff (Senior - Specialized Indexing)

<div class="job-post-container" style="position: relative; background-color: white; padding: 20px; max-width: 1000px; margin: 0 auto; box-shadow: 0px 0px 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); min-height: 500px; border: 5px solid #000000; font-family: 'Geist', sans-serif; font-weight: 300;"> <div style="position: absolute; top: 0; left: 2; width: 200px; height: 300px; margin-top: 30px; opacity: 1; z-index: 1;">&nbsp;</div> <div class="job-post-content" style="position: relative; z-index: 2;"> <div style="text-align: left;"><img style="max-width: 100%;" src="https://res.cloudinary.com/o2bwt8ar/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/CockroachLabs_Symbol_Black_2" alt="Cockroach Labs" width="92"></div> <h1 style="font-family: 'Geist', sans-serif; font-weight: 300; color: #000000; text-align: center; line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 20px;">Category-defining tech. Career-defining work.</h1> <p style="font-family: 'Geist', sans-serif; font-weight: 300; color: #000000; text-align: left;">For more than a decade, Cockroach Labs has built database technology trusted to power some of the world's most mission-critical applications. Now, as AI transforms how software is created and operated, the infrastructure behind it has to keep pace. Cockroach Continuum is built to meet this moment, bringing individual databases together into one fleet designed for agentic applications, where AI agents help teams provision, scale, and optimize workloads at machine speed.</p> <p style="font-family: 'Geist', sans-serif; font-weight: 300; text-align: left;">At Cockroach Labs, you'll solve problems that didn't exist five years ago alongside people who believe the simplest solutions often require the most sophisticated thinking. Your work will run in production at some of the most innovative companies in the world. The people who thrive here are the ones who want to own that opportunity. &nbsp;</p> <hr> <h2 style="font-family: 'Geist', sans-serif; font-weight: 300; color: #000000;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong style="font-weight: 500;">The Role</strong></span></h2> <p style="font-family: 'Geist', sans-serif; font-weight: 300; color: #000000;">The <strong style="font-weight: 500;">SQL Queries</strong> 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.</p> <p style="font-family: 'Geist', sans-serif; font-weight: 300; color: #000000;">AI is transforming how we search, learn, and build, and databases are evolving to kee