CockroachDB Administrator for Sunnyvale, CA or Austin, TX

Hi

My name is Rohit Chauhan, and I am a Staffing Specialist at Novia Infotech LLC. I am reaching out to you on an exciting job opportunity with one of our clients

 

Title: CockroachDB Administrator (Cockroach DBA)

Location: Sunnyvale, CA or Austin, TX

 

Job Summary:

We are seeking an experienced CockroachDB Administrator (Cockroach DBA) to design, deploy, operate, and scale multi-region CockroachDB clusters in high-availability, production environments. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in distributed databases, strong troubleshooting skills, and hands-on experience managing globally distributed clusters with strict availability, consistency, and performance requirements.

 

Key Responsibilities:

·        Design, deploy, operate, and scale multi-region CockroachDB (CRDB) clusters in production

·        Ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and strong data consistency across globally distributed environments

·        Perform capacity planning and proactive scaling to support future growth

·        Monitor cluster health, latency, replication status, and resource utilization using observability and monitoring tools

·        Diagnose and resolve complex database and infrastructure issues, including:

·        Node failures

·        Network partitions

·        Leaseholder and range imbalances

·        Replication lag

·        Hotspotting

·        High latency and throughput bottlenecks

·        Participate in on-call rotations and provide support during production incidents

·        Lead or contribute to incident response and root cause analysis (RCA)

·        Design and implement disaster recovery strategies, including multi-region architectures

·        Implement, test, and validate backup, restore, and point-in-time recovery (PITR) processes

·        Ensure reliable failover and fallback mechanisms

·        Automate provisioning, scaling, patching, and upgrades of CockroachDB clusters

·        Perform rolling upgrades with zero or near-zero downtime

·        Optimize SQL query performance and improve database schema design

·        Identify and remediate performance and scalability issues in distributed SQL workloads

·        Create and maintain operational runbooks, SOPs, and on-call playbooks for CockroachDB

·        Ensure operational readiness, knowledge sharing, and process standardization

 

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Strong hands-on experience as a CockroachDB Administrator / DBA
• Deep understanding of distributed SQL databases and multi-region architectures
• Proven experience managing production-grade, highly available database clusters
• Expertise in troubleshooting distributed systems issues (replication, latency, hotspotting, failures)
• Experience with backup/restore, PITR, and disaster recovery strategies
• Hands-on experience with automation tools and scripting for database operations
• Strong SQL performance tuning and schema optimization skills
• Experience working in on-call and production support environments

 

 

Rohit Chauhan IT Recruiter E: rohit.c@noviainfotech.com www.noviainfotech.com A: 4421 Avenida Ln, McKinney, TX, 75070

 

 

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