Description

Design, deploy, and maintain production-grade CockroachDB clusters in cloud and hybrid environments.

This role is on-site.

Responsibilities

• Administer CockroachDB clusters, ensuring high availability, performance, and resource efficiency.
• Perform query optimization, indexing strategies, and capacity planning to support scalable growth.
• Implement backup, recovery, and disaster recovery solutions for business continuity.
• Build automation and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) pipelines for provisioning and upgrades using Terraform or Ansible.
• Establish SRE practices, including SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets, while leading incident response and root cause analysis.

Required Skills

• 7+ years of experience in database engineering, administration, or site reliability engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience administering CockroachDB or similar distributed SQL databases.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, replication, and high-availability architectures.
• Proficiency with cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform or Ansible.
• Scripting experience using Python, Shell, or Go.
• Strong Linux/Unix administration skills.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automation frameworks.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Kubernetes and containerized platforms.
• Knowledge of observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or ELK.
• Understanding of database security, governance, and compliance requirements.

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree