Senior CockroachDB Engineer — Multi-Region & DR

Mindtris; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

Mindtris is seeking a Senior CockroachDB Engineer to design, deploy, operate, and scale multi-region CockroachDB clusters in production, ensuring high availability and data consistency in globally distributed environments. This onsite role in Sunnyvale requires strong SQL optimization and disaster recovery expertise.

You will monitor health and performance, plan capacity, and automate provisioning and upgrades, while participating in on-call rotations to maintain production reliability.

Qualifications

• Senior-level experience designing, deploying, and operating CockroachDB (CRDB) clusters in production.
• Strong background in distributed database systems, high availability, and fault-tolerant architecture.
• Hands-on disaster recovery planning, backup/restore, and point-in-time recovery.
• Experience with observability/monitoring tools for tracking cluster health, latency, and replication.
• Strong SQL query optimization and schema design skills.
• Must be authorized to work in the US (USC, GC, or GC EAD only).
• Willingness to participate in on-call rotations.

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, and 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

CockroachDB

Distributed systems

SQL optimization

Observability

On-call readiness

Job description

Mindtris is seeking a Senior CockroachDB Engineer to design, deploy, operate, and scale multi-region CockroachDB clusters in production, ensuring high availability and data consistency in globally distributed environments. This onsite role in Sunnyvale requires strong SQL optimization and disaster recovery expertise.

You will monitor health and performance, plan capacity, and automate provisioning and upgrades, while participating in on-call rotations to maintain production reliability.