Cockroach DB Database Engineer

Position: Cockroach DB Database Engineer

Client: Confidential

Location: Plano, TX / Charlotte, NC / Chandler, AZ- (Hybrid- 3 days onsite/week)

Visa: Open to sponsorship , client consider OPT and as well

Rate: DOE on W2

I'm currently looking for a Cockroach DB Database Engineer to join a high-impact enterprise database engineering team for one of our clients.

We're seeking a hands-on engineer with expertise in CockroachDB administration and architecture who can help design, build, and operationalize a scalable Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) platform on Linux.

Key qualifications include:

Hands-on CockroachDB DBA experience

Knowledge of distributed databases, replication, consistency, and consensus models

Expertise building automation with Ansible Playbooks

Scripting experience with Bash/Shell

Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles

Database performance tuning, query optimization, and capacity planning

High availability, disaster recovery, backup/restore, and failover strategies

Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Splunk

Experience supporting enterprise-scale, multi-region deployments

Nice to have:

Terraform or similar IaC tools

CI/CD integration for database provisioning

Financial services or other regulated industry experience

Experience leveraging AI coding tools such as GitHub Copilot