Database Consultant, CockroachDB

Why Pythian :

At Pythian , we are experts in strategic database and analytics services, driving digital transformation and operational excellence. Pythian , a multinational company, was founded in 1997 and started by ensuring the reliability and performance of mission-critical databases. We quickly earned a reputation for solving tough data challenges. We were there when the industry moved from on-premises to cloud environments, and as enterprises sought more from their data, we expanded our competencies to include advanced analytics.

Today, we empower organizations to embrace transformation and leverage advanced technologies, including AI, to stay competitive. We deliver innovative solutions that meet each client’s data goals and have built strong partnerships with Google Cloud, AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, and Snowflake. The powerful combination of our extensive expertise in data and cloud and our ability to keep on top of the latest bleeding edge technologies make us the perfect partner to help mid and large-sized businesses transform to stay ahead in today’s rapidly changing digital economy.

Why you:

The Database Consultant plays a critical role in our CockroachDB consulting practice in the following key areas of responsibility:

• Own the reliability, scalability, latency, and performance of mission-critical CockroachDB infrastructure
• Promote operational efficiency by developing automated systems and tools, significantly reducing operational toil.
• Act as a technical mentor and subject matter expert within the team and consulting partner to customer teams.

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What you will be doing:

• Serve as a primary technical consultant, partnering with customer teams for project-based and long-term CockroachDB support.
• Design, document, and implement the new L1/L2 support channel and operational workflow (e.g., ticket triage, escalation paths, SLA adherence) for CockroachDB to accommodate evolving client expectations.
• Act as an escalation point for complex, time-sensitive production support and troubleshooting within distributed database environments.
• Ensure data security, integrity, and quality by adhering to internal standards and industry best practices, covering TLS/certificate management, RBAC, secrets management (KMS/CMEK/encryption), and audit logging.
• Own Backup, Restore, and Disaster Recovery (DR) operations, including scheduled full/incremental backups, point-in-time restore, restore drills, RPO/RTO definition, and failover testing.
• Manage the full CockroachDB Cluster Lifecycle, including