Cockroach DB Senior Engineer

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• 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 health, 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 Location : Sunnyvale, CA Salary Range: $90,000 - $140,000 per year #LI-AS3