# RocksDB

Skill · Databases

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/rocksdb

RocksDB is an open-source, embeddable key-value store developed by Facebook (Meta), optimized for fast storage such as SSDs and built on Google's LevelDB codebase using a log-structured merge-tree (LSM-tree) architecture. Software engineers use it as an embedded storage engine within larger systems, such as databases (e.g., CockroachDB, TiKV) and stream-processing platforms, to achieve high write throughput and efficient storage. It is written in C++ and offers bindings for languages like Java, making it a common backend choice for performance-critical applications.

## Roles that use RocksDB

- [Engineer](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/engineer) — 1

Related skills: [C++](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/c-2), [CockroachDB](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/cockroachdb), [LevelDB](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/leveldb)

## Open roles requiring RocksDB (1)

- [Distinguished Engineer, Storage – AI Cloud](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/430cdc60-d4c4-46b1-985a-658e8f6686c8/distinguished-engineer-storage-ai-cloud-at-nvidia) at [NVIDIA](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/nvidia) — Full-time, Santa Clara, CA, $320,000 – $488,750