Cockroach DBA

Overview

On Site
Depends on Experience
Contract - Independent
Contract - W2
Contract - 12 Month(s)

Skills

Cockroach
DBA
CockroachDB
clusters
latency
Network partitions
Hot spotting
scaling
patching
SOPs
CRDB

Job Details

Job Title: Cockroach DBA

Location: Sunnyvale, CA (On-Site)

Job Description:

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills:

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

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

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