Senior CockroachDB Platform Engineer

Matlen Silver; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Matlen Silver is seeking a CockroachDB Database Engineer to design, build, and operationalize a CockroachDB-based DBaaS on Linux. You will contribute to scalable deployments, HA/DR planning, and enterprise security controls, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to improve reliability and developer experience.

The role requires hands-on CockroachDB experience, strong scripting skills, and expertise in multi-region deployments and observability tools.

Qualifications

• Hands-on CockroachDB design, build and operate experience.
• Deep understanding of distributed database replication, consistency and consensus models.
• Strong shell scripting for automation (Bash/Korn Shell).
• IaC principles and automation to enable scalable deployments.
• Experience with multi-region architectures and high availability design.
• Database performance tuning, query optimization, and capacity planning.

Responsibilities

• Develop and enforce engineering standards, reference architectures and best practices.
• Build automation frameworks to enable scalable, repeatable deployments.
• Design self-service provisioning capabilities for application teams.
• Ensure high availability, performance tuning, monitoring, failover and DR capabilities.
• Define and implement security, compliance and governance controls.

Skills

CockroachDB architecture

Distributed DB concepts

Shell scripting

IaC principles

Multi-region deployments

Performance tuning

8+ years database engineering

Terraform

Ansible

Monitoring/Observability

Backup/DR strategies

RBAC security controls

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Prometheus

Grafana

Splunk

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Matlen Silver is seeking a CockroachDB Database Engineer to design, build, and operationalize a CockroachDB-based DBaaS on Linux. You will contribute to scalable deployments, HA/DR planning, and enterprise security controls, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to improve reliability and developer experience.

The role requires hands-on CockroachDB experience, strong scripting skills, and expertise in multi-region deployments and observability tools.