Cassandra Database Engineer

Overview

We are seeking a Cassandra Database Engineer for a long-term contract in Austin, TX (hybrid- M/W/Thu).

Position Summary:

Responsible for the operational management, performance, and reliability of critical Cassandra clusters. This hybrid role requires in-office presence on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays with no flexibility. You’ll lead efforts in database monitoring, restoration, patching, and problem solving, while collaborating closely with technical and project teams.

• Performance analysis and operational review of production Cassandra platforms
• Manage operations: incident response, alert resolution, and third-party support engagement
• Deploy and maintain monitoring solutions (Prometheus, Datadog preferred)
• Build and test database recovery procedures
• Oversee deployments, installation, patching, change management
• Implement database hardening across public cloud, on-prem, and hosted platforms
• Provide operations support and expertise to support/project teams
• Participate in platform reviews, security evaluations, tuning, and proactively recommend improvements
• Act as a go-to Cassandra resource for internal teams

• HS diploma required;
  Bachelor’s in Computer Science preferred
• 5+ years current hands-on Cassandra cluster administration
• Extensive NOSQL experience, especially Cassandra
• Must be maintaining Cassandra clusters currently: specify clusters/nodes/version in use, years of recent experience
• Must have operations experience and speak to environment challenges: patching, upgrades, crisis management, performance tuning, backup/recovery, monitoring
• Adaptable to context switching and stressful situations
• Hybrid role, in-office Mon/Wed/Thurs required
• Significant experience in public cloud database deployment/management (AWS/GCP)
• Expertise in performance evaluation, high availability, operations support
• Skilled in change management and platform upgrades
• Strong Linux OS background
• Hands-on with Git Lab, Terraform, Datadog
• Comfortable multitasking and thriving under pressure (outages, crisis, war room scenarios)