Cockroach DB Database Engineer

Cockroach DB Database Engineer

Locations: Plano, TX | Charlotte, NC | Chandler, AZ
Work Arrangement: Hybrid – 3 Days Onsite per Week
Employment Type: Contract

Position Overview

We are seeking a hands-on Cockroach DB Database Engineer to join an enterprise database engineering team. The ideal candidate will have strong experience with CockroachDB administration and architecture and will help design, build, automate, and operationalize a scalable Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) platform running on Linux.

This role requires strong expertise in distributed database technologies, automation, infrastructure, performance optimization, and enterprise-scale database operations.

Required Qualifications

• Hands-on Cockroach DB DBA experience.
• Strong understanding of distributed databases, including:
  • Replication
  • Consistency
  • Consensus models
  • Distributed transactions
• Experience building database automation using Ansible Playbooks.
• Strong Bash/Shell scripting experience.
• Understanding and practical application of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles.
• Database performance tuning and query optimization.
• Capacity planning and database resource management.
• High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR).
• Backup, restore, and failover strategies.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as:
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Splunk
• Experience supporting enterprise-scale, multi-region CockroachDB deployments.
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer and support CockroachDB environments across enterprise infrastructure.
• Design and implement scalable CockroachDB architectures.
• Support multi-region database deployments and distributed database environments.
• Develop automation for database provisioning, configuration, maintenance, and operational tasks.
• Build and maintain Ansible Playbooks and shell scripts.
• Implement database monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability.
• Perform database performance analysis, query optimization, and capacity planning.
• Design and maintain backup, restore, HA, DR, and failover strategies.
• Troubleshoot complex database and infrastructure issues.
• Support the development and operationalization of a scalable DBaaS platform.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, DevOps, application, and engineering teams.
• Ensure database environments meet enterprise reliability, security, and operational standards.

Preferred Qualifications

• Terraform or similar IaC tools.
• Experience integrating database provisioning with CI/CD pipelines.
• Financial services or other regulated-industry experience.
• Experience using AI-assisted coding tools such as GitHub Copilot.
• Experience with cloud-based database infrastructure.

Technical Skills

• Cockroach DB
• Linux
• Distributed Databases
• Database Architecture
• Database Administration
• Ansible
• Bash / Shell
• Infrastructure as Code
• Terraform
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• Splunk
• Database Performance Tuning
• Query Optimization
• Capacity Planning
• High Availability
• Disaster Recovery
• Backup & Restore
• Failover
• Multi-Region Deployments
• DBaaS
• CI/CD