CockroachDB is a distributed SQL database company founded in 2015 by Spencer Kimball, Peter Mattis, and Ben Darnell. Headquartered in New York with a major presence in San Francisco, the company builds a horizontally scalable, strongly consistent SQL database designed for cloud-native applications. CockroachDB differentiates on providing ACID guarantees across distributed clusters while maintaining ease of use comparable to traditional PostgreSQL-compatible databases. The company has raised $157M+ in venture funding and serves enterprises requiring high availability and geographic distribution of data, with customers spanning finance, e-commerce, and SaaS sectors. Their open source offering has built a substantial developer community alongside their commercial product.
CockroachDB cultivates a technical, engineering-led culture where distributed systems expertise is central to the mission. The company emphasizes open source contribution and community engagement, with engineers expected to maintain public-facing code and documentation. As a well-funded growth-stage company, it operates with startup momentum while building enterprise infrastructure, attracting senior distributed systems engineers and database specialists. Remote-friendly and collaborative, with a focus on solving hard technical problems rather than rapid feature velocity.
3 open now, 3 first appeared in the last 30d.
| Round | Closed | Amount | Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Series C | Mar 2020 | $87.0M | Greenspring Associates, Altimeter Capital |
| Series B | Mar 2018 | $50.0M | GV Google Ventures, Sequoia Capital |
| Series A | Jun 2016 | $20.0M | Google Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners |
| Title ↕ | Location ↕ | Posted ↓ |
|---|---|---|
| Sales Development Representative, Singapore | Remote, Singapore | 3d |
| Sales Development Representative, Australia | Remote, Australia | 4d |
| Sr. Financial Analyst, GTM | New York, NY | 5d |