Senior CockroachDB Database Engineer

Location:
Sunnyvale, CA

Duration :

Full Time

Experience: 5-10 Years

We are seeking a highly skilled Cockroach DB Database Engineer with strong Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) experience to design, implement, manage, and optimize large-scale distributed database platforms. The ideal candidate will have hands-on expertise in Cockroach DB administration, performance tuning, high availability, disaster recovery, automation, observability, and operational reliability. The role requires close collaboration with development, infrastructure, and platform engineering teams to ensure highly available, resilient, and scalable database services.

• Design, deploy, administer, and maintain production-grade Cockroach DB clusters across cloud and on-premises environments.
• Monitor database health, performance, latency, throughput, and resource utilization to ensure service reliability and availability.
• Implement and manage backup, restore, disaster recovery, and business continuity strategies.
• Perform database capacity planning, performance tuning, indexing, and query optimization.
• Develop automation scripts and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions to streamline provisioning, upgrades, and operational tasks.
• Establish and manage SRE practices including Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and Error Budgets.
• Drive incident management, root cause analysis (RCA), postmortems, and preventive remediation activities.
• Build and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, or similar platforms.
• Collaborate with Dev Ops and Engineering teams to improve platform reliability, scalability, security, and operational excellence.
• Support production releases, database migrations, version upgrades, and platform modernization initiatives.
• Participate in on-call rotation and provide support for critical production incidents.
• Implement database security controls, access governance, auditing, and compliance best practices.

• Strong hands-on experience with Cockroach DB Administration
• Expertise in distributed SQL databases and cluster management
• Database performance tuning and query optimization
• Backup, recovery, replication, and data protection strategies
• High Availability and Disaster Recovery architecture

• Strong understanding of SRE principles and operational excellence
• Experience defining and tracking SLIs, SLOs, and Error Budgets
• Incident response, RCA, and reliability engineering practices
• Production monitoring, observability, and capacity management
• Reliability automation and operational process improvement
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, etc.)
• Scripting using Python, Shell, or Go
• CI/CD pipeline integration and automation

• Experience supporting large-scale, mission-critical distributed systems.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes and containerized deployments.
• Experience with observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, or Splunk.
• Understanding of security, compliance, and governance requirements for database platforms.
• Cockroach DB certification or equivalent distributed database expertise is highly desirable.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Excellent stakeholder communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced production environment.
• Strong ownership mindset with a focus on reliability and customer experience.