Cockroach DB Senior Engineer-6

REALIGN LLC; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

REALIGN LLC in Austin, TX and Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a CockroachDB Senior Engineer to design, deploy, and operate multi-region CRDB clusters in production environments. You will ensure availability, fault tolerance, and data consistency across globally distributed deployments.

You will monitor health, latency, replication status, and resource utilization using observability tools, while planning capacity and performing proactive scaling for future growth.

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

Skills

DevOps Engineer

Email Security Engineer

Job description

Austin, Texas 73301 Posted September 14th, 2026

Role

Cockroach DB Senior Engineer

Location

Sunnyvale, CA / Austin, TX

Job Type

Full Time

Job Category

IT

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

Required Skills

• DevOps Engineer Senior Email Security Engineer