Senior OLTP DB Architect - Healthcare AI Platform

Socket.dev; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Heartflow in San Francisco is seeking a Staff Application Database Architect to own OLTP database design, performance tuning, and Django ORM strategy across clinical and operational services.

You will model data for patients, studies, and devices, drive DB operations with a focus on HIPAA/GDPR compliance, and mentor engineers in a high-availability cloud environment. Strong ownership and collaboration are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline; Master’s preferred.
• 10+ years of experience as backend/database engineer or data architect with OLTP focus.
• Experience with healthcare data systems and regulatory compliance (FDA, HIPAA, GDPR).

Responsibilities

• Design, build & own OLTP database systems powering clinical apps and operations.
• Define ORM strategy and optimize Django/Python data access patterns.
• Lead database performance, backups, and incident response with SLOs.
• Model conceptual, logical, and physical data for patients, studies, and devices.
• Collaborate on AI-enabled data semantics and downstream analytics pipelines.

Skills

OLTP DB Eng

SQLAlchemy/Django ORM

Data Modeling

DBA Leadership

AWS Cloud

Healthcare Data

Analytics / Data Lake (bonus)

AI Enablement & Semantic Data (bonus)

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related

Master's degree preferred

Job description

Heartflow in San Francisco is seeking a Staff Application Database Architect to own OLTP database design, performance tuning, and Django ORM strategy across clinical and operational services.

You will model data for patients, studies, and devices, drive DB operations with a focus on HIPAA/GDPR compliance, and mentor engineers in a high-availability cloud environment. Strong ownership and collaboration are required.