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VARITE INC · 1 month ago

USA_Database Administrator

Sunnyvale, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$55.60/hr - $60.60/hr

7+ years exp

VARITE INC is a company seeking a Database Administrator with expertise in CockroachDB. The role involves designing, deploying, and maintaining multi-region CockroachDB clusters while ensuring high availability and data consistency in production environments.

Information Technology & Services

Growth Opportunities

Responsibilities

Design, deploy, operate, and scale multi-region CockroachDB clusters in production environments

Ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and data consistency for globally distributed clusters

Monitor cluster health, latency, replication status, and resource utilization using observability tools

Perform capacity planning and proactive scaling for future growth

Troubleshoot complex database and infrastructure issues including:

Node failures

Network partitions

Leaseholder and range imbalance

Replication lag

Hotspotting

High latency / throughput bottlenecks

Design disaster recovery strategies (multi-region, backup/restore, failover/fallback)

Implement and test backup, restore, and point-in-time recovery processes

Automate provisioning, scaling, patching, and upgrades of CRDB clusters

Perform rolling upgrades with zero or near-zero downtime

Optimize SQL query performance and database schema efficiency

Create operational runbooks, SOPs, and on-call playbooks for CRDB

Participate in on-call rotations and incident response for production clusters

Qualification

CockroachDBDatabase designDisaster recovery strategiesSQL optimizationMonitoring toolsAutomationOn-call support

Required