Cockroach DB Senior Engineer

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

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services Limited in Sunnyvale, CA, is seeking a seasoned CockroachDB Database Engineer to design, deploy, and manage multi-region clusters in production. You will ensure high availability, low latency, and data consistency across globally distributed deployments, and work with observability tools to monitor health and capacity.

Responsibilities include automated provisioning, scaling, backups, rolling upgrades with minimal downtime, and contributing runbooks for on-call

Qualifications

• Experience administering CockroachDB in production environments.
• Strong understanding of distributed SQL and data consistency.
• Familiarity with observability tools and capacity planning.

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: network partitions, leaseholder and range imbalance, hotspotting
• 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

Skills

Database Administration

Data Networking

Database

Job description

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:
• 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

Location

Sunnyvale, CA

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

Desired Skills

Database Administration | Data Network | Database