CockroachDB Senior Engineer
Neshent Tech
Sunnyvale, CA/Austin, TX
Posted On: Feb 04, 2026
Posted On: Feb 04, 2026
Job Overview
Salary
Depends on Experience
Required Skills
- CockroachDB
- SQL
- Performance Tuning
- cloud
- Linux
Job Description
Roles and Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, operate, and scale multi-region CockroachDB clusters in production.
- Ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and data consistency across global deployments.
- Monitor cluster health, latency, replication, and resource utilization.
- Perform capacity planning and proactive scaling.
- Troubleshoot complex issues including node failures, network partitions, replication lag, hotspotting, and performance bottlenecks.
- Design and implement disaster recovery, backup/restore, and point-in-time recovery strategies.
- Automate provisioning, scaling, patching, and rolling upgrades with minimal downtime.
- Optimize SQL queries and database schema for distributed workloads.
- Create operational runbooks and participate in on-call and incident response.
Required Skills
- Hands-on experience with CockroachDB in production.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems and SQL performance tuning.
- Experience with observability tools, cloud platforms, and Linux environments.
- Proven ability to operate and support mission-critical databases at scale.
Job ID: NT220395