Healthcare Cloud Database Engineer (HIPAA, HA)

Medclinicx; United States; On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Med Clinic X is seeking a Database Engineer to design, develop, and maintain secure database architectures for healthcare SaaS platforms and clinical applications.

You will optimize queries, implement indexing, configure high-availability replication, and ensure HIPAA compliance while collaborating with engineering, DevOps, and BI teams.

This role offers opportunities to grow expertise in healthcare data systems and cloud-native database deployments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or related field required.
• Strong experience in database design, scaling, and administration.
• Proficiency in PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL, or Oracle.
• Deep understanding of query tuning and index optimization.
• Experience with clustering, replication, and backups.

Responsibilities

• Design schema layouts and data architectures.
• Create normalized tables and implement PHI isolation rules.
• Deploy cloud-managed databases (RDS, Aurora, Cloud SQL).
• Maintain transactional consistency and referential integrity.
• Analyze query execution plans and optimize performance.
• Implement partitioning, sharding, and indexing strategies.
• Enforce HIPAA and SOC2 compliance controls.
• Establish RBAC and data access controls.
• Configure multi-AZ replication and PITR pipelines.

Skills

Database design

Query tuning

Security and HIPAA awareness

RBAC and access control

Backup and disaster recovery planning

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Information Systems or related field

Tools

PostgreSQL

MySQL

MSSQL

Oracle

MongoDB

Redis

Cassandra

AWS Aurora

GCP Cloud SQL

Job description

Med Clinic X is seeking a Database Engineer to design, develop, and maintain secure database architectures for healthcare SaaS platforms and clinical applications.

You will optimize queries, implement indexing, configure high-availability replication, and ensure HIPAA compliance while collaborating with engineering, DevOps, and BI teams.

This role offers opportunities to grow expertise in healthcare data systems and cloud-native database deployments.