Remote Senior PostgreSQL & Aurora DB Engineer

Healthie; United States; On-site; USD 205,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Annual bonus benefits

Job summary

Healthie is hiring a Staff Database Engineer – PostgreSQL to join our Platform Engineering team. You’ll be a key contributor to one of the most important pieces of digital infrastructure in the healthcare space.

Our platform is growing rapidly, and we need someone who can ensure our databases scale, perform, and remain reliable. You’ll own Aurora databases, managing setup, upgrades, monitoring, and troubleshooting.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in Amazon AWS RDS Aurora, Postgres replication, partitioning, clustering, high availability, backup, and disaster recovery.
• Experience in mission-critical environments ensuring database reliability and scalability.
• Bonus for healthcare or regulated industries experience.
• Strong foundation in designing, scaling, and optimizing Postgres deployments.
• Ability to prioritize platform needs and balance short-term fixes with long-term scalability.
• Collaborative leader with clear communication and teamwork.
• Proficiency with Terraform, scripting, and Postgres monitoring systems.

Responsibilities

• Own Aurora databases, managing setup, configuration, upgrades, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Design and execute zero or minimal downtime upgrades and disaster recovery solutions.
• Implement partitioning, archiving, and access to archived data.
• Measure and optimize system performance, capacity planning, and security instrumentation.
• Collaborate with feature teams to improve schema and query performance; observe application behavior to prioritize optimizations.

Skills

AWS RDS Aurora

PostgreSQL

Partitioning

Clustering

Disaster recovery

Database performance

Query optimization

Schema design

Automation scripting

Collaboration

Tools

Terraform

PG Bouncer

PostgreSQL monitoring

Job description

Healthie is hiring a Staff Database Engineer – PostgreSQL to join our Platform Engineering team. You’ll be a key contributor to one of the most important pieces of digital infrastructure in the healthcare space.

Our platform is growing rapidly, and we need someone who can ensure our databases scale, perform, and remain reliable. You’ll own Aurora databases, managing setup, upgrades, monitoring, and troubleshooting.