Cockroach DBA

Job Title: Cockroach DBA

Location: Sunnyvale, CA/Austin, TX

Role Descriptions:

• 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