Cockroach DBA

Overview

On Site
Depends on Experience
Full Time

Skills

Disaster Recovery
Failover
High Availability
Incident Management
Recovery
Replication
Database
Capacity Management
Backup
Provisioning
SQL
Cockroach
CockroachDB

Job Details

Position: Cockroach DBA
Position Type: Fulltime
Location: Sunnyvale, CA/ Austin ,TX - Onsite

Years of Experience: 8 - 15 years of experience

Job Description:

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

Thanks and Regards,

Sajith Nair
Ztek Consulting Inc.
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