Senior CockroachDB Engineer - Multi-Region HA

REALIGN LLC; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

REALIGN LLC is seeking a CockroachDB Senior Engineer for a full-time role in Sunnyvale, CA (with Austin, TX involvement). The engineer will design, deploy, and operate multi-region CockroachDB clusters, ensuring high availability and data consistency for globally distributed workloads.

Responsibilities include monitoring, capacity planning, incident response, and disaster recovery planning, with leadership in zero-downtime rolling upgrades and performance optimization.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and operating distributed databases at scale.
• Ability to ensure high availability and data consistency for globally distributed clusters.
• Experience with backup/restore and point-in-time recovery processes.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, operate, and scale multi-region CockroachDB clusters in production.
• 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, replication lag, hotspotting.
• Design disaster recovery strategies (multi-region, backup/restore, failover/fallback).
• 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

Multi-region deployment

SQL optimization

Observability

On-call rotations

Tools

CockroachDB tooling

Job description

REALIGN LLC is seeking a CockroachDB Senior Engineer for a full-time role in Sunnyvale, CA (with Austin, TX involvement). The engineer will design, deploy, and operate multi-region CockroachDB clusters, ensuring high availability and data consistency for globally distributed workloads.

Responsibilities include monitoring, capacity planning, incident response, and disaster recovery planning, with leadership in zero-downtime rolling upgrades and performance optimization.