Cockroach DBA Sunnyvale, CA or Austin, TX

Job Details::Location: Sunnyvale, CA or Austin, TX (5x/ week onsite) Duration: 6 monthsCockroach DBA Design, deploy, operate, and scale multi-region CockroachDB clusters in production environments Ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and data consistency for globally distributed clusters Monitor cluster personalth, latency, replication status, and resource utilization using observability tools Perform capacity planning and proactive scaling for future growth Troubleshoot complex database and infrastructure issues including: Node failures Network partitions Leaseholder and range imbalance Replication lag Hotspotting High latency / throughput bottlenecks Design disaster recovery strategies (multi-region, backup/restore, failover/fallback) Implement and test backup, restore, and point-in-time recovery processes Automate provisioning, scaling, patching, and upgrades of CRDB clusters Perform rolling upgrades with zero or near-zero downtime Optimize SQL query performance and database schema efficiency Create operational runbooks, SOPs, and on-call playbooks for CRDB Participate in on-call rotations and incident response for production clusters

Created: 2026-03-10