Austin, Texas 73301 Posted September 14th, 2026
Role
Cockroach DB Senior Engineer
Location
Sunnyvale, CA / Austin, TX
Job Type
Full Time
Job Category
IT
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
Required Skills
- DevOps Engineer Senior Email Security Engineer
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