Remote Senior DB Reliability Engineer (Aurora MySQL)

Jobgether; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote/Hybrid

Equity (possible)

Flexible PTO

Lunch program

Disability Insurance

Life Insurance

Health benefits

401(k)

Gym/fitness credits

HQ recovery facilities

Job summary

Jobgether is seeking a Senior Database Reliability Engineer in the United States to own the reliability, performance, and cost efficiency of production databases powering a modern healthcare technology platform. You will manage end-to-end database operations across EHR, data, and AI workloads with a focus on preemptive resilience.

You will work with AWS Aurora MySQL, Datadog, Terraform, and HIPAA compliance, guiding platform architecture, implementing runbooks, and optimizing read-topologies and

Qualifications

• 6+ years in database reliability engineering or similar.
• Deep MySQL/Aurora MySQL expertise and prod-scale experience.
• Experience with multi-reader Aurora/RDS clusters at TB scale.
• Strong observability with Datadog, PMM, Prometheus, or Grafana.
• Scripting (Python, Bash) and Terraform for automation.
• AWS RDS/Aurora proficiency and cost-optimization knowledge.
• On-call rotations, incident response, and runbooks.
• HIPAA-regulated environment experience is advantageous.
• Familiarity with security, backup, failover, and DR practices.
• Excellent cross-team communication and collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Own reliability, performance, and health of production databases on AWS Aurora MySQL.
• Manage observability pipelines to Datadog and on-call alerts.
• Automate safeguards to terminate long-running queries.
• Analyze execution plans and optimize queries to reduce latency.
• Review queries before production to gate performance.
• Educate teams on database hygiene and performance.
• Create and maintain comprehensive runbooks for incident response.
• Architect Aurora reader topologies and read-routing strategies.
• Optimize database cost with right-sizing and Savings Plans.
• Manage backups, restore testing, failover, and DR capabilities.
• Standardize schema changes and migrations across teams.
• Collaborate with platform architecture for new workloads.
• Handle HIPAA-compliant operations and protect PHI.

Skills

MySQL expertise

Aurora MySQL

AWS RDS/Aurora

Datadog

PMM

Prometheus

Grafana

Python

Terraform

Cloud cost optimization

Incident response

Tools

Datadog

PMM

Terraform

Job description

Jobgether is seeking a Senior Database Reliability Engineer in the United States to own the reliability, performance, and cost efficiency of production databases powering a modern healthcare technology platform. You will manage end-to-end database operations across EHR, data, and AI workloads with a focus on preemptive resilience.

You will work with AWS Aurora MySQL, Datadog, Terraform, and HIPAA compliance, guiding platform architecture, implementing runbooks, and optimizing read-topologies and