Job Title : Cockroach DB DBA
Location :Sunnyvale, CA/Austin, Tx

Long term Contract

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Onsite role

Note: Cockroach DBA

Job Title: Cockroach DBA

Role Descriptions:
Key Responsibilities
• Design, deploy, operate, and scale multi-region Cockroach DB 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 Hot spotting 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

Skills: Cockroach DB

Experience Required: 8-10

Cockroach DB DBA

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