Senior Database Engineer

Veridic Solutions; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Veridic Solutions is seeking an experienced Database Reliability Engineer to design, deploy, and manage CockroachDB clusters across cloud and on‑prem environments in Austin. You will monitor health, implement DR/BC, and optimize queries while driving SRE practices and incident response.

Join a team collaborating with DevOps to enhance reliability, security, and scalability, with on‑call rotation and modernization initiatives.

Qualifications

• Hands-on CockroachDB administration experience.
• Strong distributed SQL and cluster management expertise.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Proficient in Infrastructure as Code and scripting.
• Familiarity with SRE and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, administer, and maintain CockroachDB clusters across cloud and on-prem environments.
• Monitor database health, performance, latency, throughput, and resource utilization.
• Implement backup, restore, disaster recovery, and business continuity strategies.
• Perform capacity planning, performance tuning, indexing, and query optimization.
• Develop automation scripts and IaC to streamline provisioning and upgrades.
• Establish SRE practices with SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Drive incident management, RCA, postmortems, and remediation.
• Build monitoring/logging/alerting with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog.
• Collaborate with DevOps/Engineering to improve reliability, security, and scalability.
• Support production releases, migrations, and platform modernization.
• Participate in on-call rotation and critical incident support.
• Implement security controls, access governance, auditing, and compliance.

Skills

CockroachDB Administration

Distributed SQL databases

Cluster management

Performance tuning

Backup and recovery

SRE practices

SLIs/SLOs/Error Budgets

Incident response

Monitoring/Observability

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ans

Scripting (Python, Shell, Go)

CI/CD automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, administer, and maintain production-grade CockroachDB clusters across cloud and on-premises environments.


• Monitor database health, performance, latency, throughput, and resource utilization to ensure service reliability and availability.


• Implement and manage backup, restore, disaster recovery, and business continuity strategies.


• Perform database capacity planning, performance tuning, indexing, and query optimization.


• Develop automation scripts and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions to streamline provisioning, upgrades, and operational tasks.


• Establish and manage SRE practices including Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and Error Budgets.


• Drive incident management, root cause analysis (RCA), postmortems, and preventive remediation activities.


• Build and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, or similar platforms.


• Collaborate with DevOps and Engineering teams to improve platform reliability, scalability, security, and operational excellence.


• Support production releases, database migrations, version upgrades, and platform modernization initiatives.


• Participate in on-call rotation and provide support for critical production incidents.


• Implement database security controls, access governance, auditing, and compliance best practices.

Required Skills

• Database Technologies


• Strong hands-on experience with CockroachDB Administration


• Expertise in distributed SQL databases and cluster management


• Database performance tuning and query optimization


• Backup, recovery, replication, and data protection strategies


• High Availability and Disaster Recovery architecture


• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)


• Strong understanding of SRE principles and operational excellence


• Experience defining and tracking SLIs, SLOs, and Error Budgets


• Incident response, RCA, and reliability engineering practices


• Production monitoring, observability, and capacity management


• Reliability automation and operational process improvement


• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP


• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, etc.)


• Scripting using Python, Shell, or Go


• CI/CD pipeline integration and automation