Senior Distributed DB Engineer - CockroachDB Expert

Spreedly; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary + Equity

Excellent Medical and Dental benefits

Life and Disability insurance

Vision and Flexible Spending Accounts

Open PTO + 12 weeks parental leave

401(k) with company match

Professional development stipend

Home working stipend and MacBook

Job summary

Spreedly, the Intelligent Payments Platform, is hiring a Senior Database Engineer to join the Reliability team in the US. You will own and optimize our distributed database environment, focusing on CockroachDB with Cockroach Labs managed service, workload, schema, queries, and capacity.

You will mentor engineers, influence schema decisions, and partner across teams to improve observability and uptime in a payments‑critical environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of production database management experience.
• Experience with distributed databases and high-availability.
• Hands-on relational database administration for business-critical systems.
• Strong SQL, execution plans, and distributed SQL trade-offs.
• Ability to assess risk and explain trade-offs to engineers.
• Experience with CockroachDB and PostgreSQL preferred.

Responsibilities

• Improve database performance and reliability.
• Investigate bottlenecks, indexes, and config.
• Diagnose distributed-database issues and collaborate with engineers.
• Establish performance baselines and observable metrics.
• Design reviews for schema changes and migrations.
• Own operational practices and backups.
• Improve observability and capacity planning.
• Collaborate with Cockroach Labs on managed environment.

Skills

Distributed databases

SQL expert

CockroachDB

PostgreSQL

Database migrations

Performance tuning

Cloud AWS/Azure

Tools

CockroachDB

PostgreSQL

Python

Go

Job description

Spreedly, the Intelligent Payments Platform, is hiring a Senior Database Engineer to join the Reliability team in the US. You will own and optimize our distributed database environment, focusing on CockroachDB with Cockroach Labs managed service, workload, schema, queries, and capacity.

You will mentor engineers, influence schema decisions, and partner across teams to improve observability and uptime in a payments‑critical environment.