Cockroach DB Senior Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A global consulting firm in California is seeking a database engineer to design, deploy, and operate multi-region CockroachDB clusters. Responsibilities include ensuring high availability and fault tolerance while automating provisioning and scaling processes. Candidates should have experience with database optimization and troubleshooting. The role offers a competitive salary between $90,000 and $140,000 annually.

Qualifications

• Experience with deploying and scaling CockroachDB clusters.
• Proven ability to ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and data consistency.
• Familiarity with observability tools for monitoring cluster health.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and operate multi-region CockroachDB clusters.
• Monitor latency, replication status, and resource utilization.
• Automate provisioning and scaling of CRDB clusters.

Skills

CockroachDB management

High availability systems

Database optimization

Troubleshooting

Capacity planning

Job description

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

Troubleshooting

• Network partitions
• Leaseholder and range imbalance
• Hotspotting
• High latency / throughput bottlenecks

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

Salary Range: $90,000 - $140,000 per year