Senior Data Platform Engineer — AWS/Snowflake, Remote US

Lyric; Boise (ID); Remote; USD 125,000 - 188,000; Full time

Job summary

Lyric is the trusted leader in healthcare decision intelligence. Built on more than 35 years of proven results, Lyric combines responsible AI with clinical, payment, regulatory, and policy expertise to deliver transparent, auditable insights in milliseconds across real-time claims workflows.

Lyric enlists a Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and scale cloud-native data platforms. The role emphasizes robustness, performance, cost-efficiency, and high availability, collaborating

Qualifications

• Minimum of five (5) years of experience in Cloud based Data Infrastructure, Database Engineering, or related roles.
• Minimum of five (5) years of hands‑on experience with AWS Data Services (Aurora, RDS, S3, IAM, Lambda, Glue, Athena etc.).
• Strong experience with PostgreSQL/Aurora and Snowflake or similar modern data platforms.
• Proficiency in SQL and scripting or programming languages (Python, Shell, etc.).
• Hands‑on experience using Terraform and GitLab to build and operate CI/CD pipelines for data infrastructure automation.
• Demonstrated experience optimizing database performance and operating high‑throughput data systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data infrastructure on AWS using Aurora PostgreSQL, RDS, S3, and Snowflake.
• Implement and operate core data systems across ingestion, transformation, storage, and orchestration layers.
• Ensure high levels of reliability, performance, availability, and cost efficiency of data platforms and environments.
• Apply best practices in data modeling, observability, infrastructure as code (IaC), and CI/CD automation.
• Support and scale distributed data systems (PostgreSQL/Aurora, Snowflake, Kafka, caching) across environments.
• Partner with application, analytics, and AI teams to enable self-service data access.
• Participate in design reviews, contribute to technical standards, and mentor junior engineers.
• Troubleshoot production issues and drive continuous improvements in data platform operations.

Skills

AWS Data Services

PostgreSQL/Aurora

Snowflake

SQL

Terraform

GitLab

IaC/CI-CD

Tools

Terraform

GitLab

Job description

Lyric is the trusted leader in healthcare decision intelligence. Built on more than 35 years of proven results, Lyric combines responsible AI with clinical, payment, regulatory, and policy expertise to deliver transparent, auditable insights in milliseconds across real-time claims workflows.

Lyric enlists a Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and scale cloud-native data platforms. The role emphasizes robustness, performance, cost-efficiency, and high availability, collaborating