Staff Engineer, Database Platform

Modernizing Medicine, Inc.; North Carolina; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Dog-friendly HQ (US)

Hybrid/remote roles

Weekly catered meals

Wellness rooms

Job summary

Modernizing Medicine, Inc. seeks a Staff Engineer, Database Platform to lead data infrastructure and operations. You’ll own end-to-end database lifecycle, champion database-as-code, and ensure high availability, security, and performance of SQL and NoSQL systems and streaming services.

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Database Platform and Architecture, you will define architectural roadmaps, guide IaC adoption, and enforce reliability standards across cloud environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in CS/IT/Systems Engineering or related field.
• 10+ years in database administration, engineering, or SRE.
• Experience automating provisioning, scaling, and lifecycle via IaC (Terraform, Ansible).
• Deep expertise with SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra).
• Experience in public clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of automated schema migrations (Flyway, Liquibase) and zero-downtime deployments.
• Strong HA/DR, encryption, RBAC, and performance tuning knowledge.
• Familiarity with Kafka or streaming platforms.

Responsibilities

• Define the platform architectural roadmap and database reliability ownership.
• Oversee automated provisioning, scaling, and IaC tooling adoption.
• Set SLOs/SLIs, implement observability and proactive incident response.
• Integrate automated migrations (Flyway/Liquibase) into CI/CD with zero-downtime deployments.
• Enforce RBAC, encryption, and comprehensive backup and DR strategies.

Skills

Database administration

Database engineering

SRE

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD pipelines

PostgreSQL

MySQL

MongoDB

Redis

Cassandra

Kafka

cloud platforms

RBAC/security

Data security

Terraform

Ansible

Flyway

Liquibase

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / IT / Systems Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Flyway

Liquibase

Job description

Join the Team Modernizing Medicine

At ModMed, we’re not just building software—we’re reimagining the healthcare experience. Founded in 2010 by a practicing physician and a successful tech entrepreneur, we took a radically different approach: we hired doctors and taught them how to code. This "for doctors, by doctors" philosophy has allowed us to create an AI-enabled, specialty-specific cloud platform that places patients at the center of care.

A Culture of Excellence. When you join ModMed, you’re joining an award-winning team recognized for innovation and employee satisfaction. From our global headquarters in Boca Raton Florida, and extensive employee base in Hyderabad India, we are a team of 4,500+ passionate problem-solvers on a mission to increase medical practice success and improve patient outcomes: Consistently ranked as a Top Place to Work 2025 Globee Business Awards: Gold Globee for “Technology Team of the Year” 2025 Black Book Awards: Ranked #1 EHR in 11 Specialties Florida Venture Forum: Venture-Backed Company of the Year We are growing fast, thinking big, and we are just getting started. Ready to modernize medicine with us?

Job Description Summary: ModMed is seeking a strategic and technical Staff Engineer, Database Platform to lead our data infrastructure engineering and operations. Reporting to the Sr Manager, Database Platform and Architecture, you will ensure the high availability, performance, and security of our mission-critical SQL and NoSQL systems and Streaming Services. You will own the end-to-end database lifecycle, championing "database-as-code" methodologies to remove developer friction while strictly enforcing reliability standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Leadership: Define the platform's architectural roadmap, and act as the primary stakeholder for database reliability.
• Platform Engineering: Oversee automated provisioning and scaling for SQL and NoSQL databases, driving Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and self-service tooling adoption.
• Operations & Performance: Establish system SLOs/SLIs, implement advanced observability tools for proactive monitoring, and act as the ultimate escalation point for complex incidents.
• Schema Management: Treat schema changes as code by integrating automated migrations (e.g., Flyway, Liquibase) into CI/CD pipelines and establishing zero-downtime deployment practices.
• Security & DR: Enforce strict RBAC access, ensure industry-standard encryption, and own the comprehensive Backup and Disaster Recovery (DR) strategy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, System Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in database administration, database engineering, or SRE.
• Demonstrated experience leading and overseeing automated database provisioning, scaling, and lifecycle management using Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).
• Deep technical expertise operating and tuning both SQL (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra) database technologies at scale.
• Hands-on experience managing highly available database environments within public cloud infrastructures (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Strong understanding of continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines and automated schema migration tools (e.g., Flyway, Liquibase).
• Expert knowledge of database high availability (HA), disaster recovery (DR) strategies, security best practices (RBAC, encryption), and advanced performance tuning.
• Familiarity with Streaming Platforms such as Kafka

ModMed Benefits Highlight:

At ModMed, we believe it’s important to offer a competitive benefits package designed to meet the diverse needs of our growing workforce. Eligible Modernizers can enroll in a wide range of benefits: United States Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits, including a company Health Savings Account contribution, 401(k): ModMed provides a matching contribution each payday of 50% of your contribution deferred on up to 6% of your compensation. After one year of employment with ModMed, 100% of any matching contribution you receive is yours to keep. Generous Paid Time Off and Paid Parental Leave programs, Company paid Life and Disability benefits, Flexible Spending Account, and Employee Assistance Programs, Company-sponsored Business Resource & Special Interest Groups that provide engaged and supportive communities within ModMed, Professional development opportunities, including tuition reimbursement programs and unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning, Global presence and in-person collaboration opportunities; dog-friendly HQ (US), Hybrid office-based roles and remote availability for some roles, Weekly catered breakfast and lunch, treadmill workstations, Zen, and wellness rooms within our BRIC headquarters.

It takes more than just a great product to modernize medicine. It takes a great team.

The work we do makes a difference. Our web and mobile applications are transforming healthcare information technology to increase practice efficiency and improve patient outcomes. Our innovative and collaborative culture fuels our growth and creates rewarding and empowering experiences for our team.