Senior DB Reliability Engineer - HIPAA-Ready AWS Aurora

Prompt Health

United States

Remote

USD 120,000 - 180,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Flexible PTO

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Disability and life insurance

Family and medical leave

Job summary

Prompt Health is seeking a senior Database Reliability Engineer to own the reliability, performance, and availability of production databases (Aurora MySQL on AWS). You will drive alerting, observability, and cost efficiency while educating engineering teams on best practices for database hygiene and query performance.

The role requires deep MySQL expertise, hands-on experience with large multi-reader Aurora/RDS clusters, and strong scripting plus IaC skills.

Qualifications

6+ years in database reliability engineering or administration.
Deep MySQL expertise including query optimization and execution-plan analysis.
Hands-on experience with large, multi-reader Aurora or RDS clusters at terabyte scale.
Strong command of database observability tooling (Datadog, PMM, Prometheus/Grafana).
Proficiency in scripting (Python, Bash) and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform).
Solid AWS operational depth around RDS/Aurora.
Experience with on-call and incident response.

Responsibilities

Own the reliability, performance, and availability of all production databases (Aurora MySQL on AWS).
Manage database alerting and observability via Datadog.
Educate engineering teams on database hygiene and query performance.