Senior Database Engineer

Summary

Join Healthie's Platform Engineering team as a Senior Database Engineer - PostgreSQL and become a key contributor to crucial healthcare digital infrastructure. You will be responsible for database infrastructure administration across various environments, ensuring smooth operation and performance. Your expertise in PostgreSQL will be vital in deploying, scaling, and refining our data model. This is a full-time, remote position requiring U.S. work authorization, offering a salary range of $160,000 - $185,000. You will own our Aurora databases, managing setup, configuration, upgrades, and troubleshooting. You'll collaborate with feature teams to improve schema and queries, optimizing system performance and security.

Requirements

• Have deep expertise in Amazon AWS RDS Aurora, Postgres replication, partitioning, clustering, high availability, backup, and disaster recovery strategies
• Have experience in mission-critical environments, ensuring database reliability, performance, and scalability
• Have a strong foundation in designing, scaling, and optimizing Postgres deployments
• Have a strong ability to prioritize platform needs, balancing short-term fixes with long-term scalability
• Be a collaborative leader who influences without authority—people enjoy working with you because you communicate clearly and support your colleagues
• Have very strong interpersonal, collaboration, and communication skills, embodying Healthie’s core values of Respect, Reliability, and Resilience without ego
• Have a bias toward execution—you focus on getting things done and don’t let obstacles slow you down. You are full of grit and not afraid to roll up your sleeves and move quickly
• Thrive in fast-paced, problem-solving environments, constantly improving and optimizing database performance
• Be Mission-driven, excited about building infrastructure that improves patient outcomes
• Have strong proficiency in tools like Terraform, PG Bouncer, scripting, and postgres monitoring systems
• Be experienced in building and maintaining infrastructure for critically important applications
• Take initiative and problem-solve effectively, asking the right questions and finding solutions
• Have U.S. work authorization

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for database infrastructure administration across production, QA, and development environments, ensuring smooth operation, monitoring performance, and maintaining automation scripts
• Own our Aurora databases, managing database setup, configuration, upgrades, monitoring, and troubleshooting
• Design and execute zero or minimal downtime upgrades and disaster recovery solutions while implementing best practices for partitioning, archiving, and accessing archived data
• Measure and optimize system performance, capacity planning, and security instrumentation
• Collaborate with feature teams to facilitate schema and query improvements
• Observe application behavior to prioritize query optimizations

Preferred Qualifications

Have experience in healthcare or other regulated industries

Benefits

• Full-time, remote position
• Salary range is $160,000 - $185,000