Staff PostgreSQL & Aurora Database Engineer

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

Job summary

Healthie is seeking a Staff Database Engineer specializing in PostgreSQL to join their Platform Engineering team. This full-time, remote position requires expertise in managing database infrastructure, ensuring reliability, and optimizing performance across production, QA, and development environments.

The ideal candidate will possess deep knowledge of Amazon AWS RDS Aurora and Postgres, with strong interpersonal and collaboration skills. A competitive salary range of $205,000 – $235,000 is offered, alongside equity and additional benefits.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in Amazon AWS RDS Aurora, Postgres replication, and clustering.
• Experience in mission-critical environments ensuring database reliability.
• Strong foundation in designing and optimizing Postgres deployments.

Responsibilities

• Manage database infrastructure administration across production, QA, and development.
• Design and execute zero or minimal downtime upgrades.
• Collaborate with feature teams to improve schema and query performance.

Skills

Amazon AWS RDS Aurora

Postgres replication

Database reliability

Disaster recovery strategies

Collaboration skills

Postgres monitoring tools

Tools

Terraform

PG Bouncer

Job description

Healthie is seeking a Staff Database Engineer specializing in PostgreSQL to join their Platform Engineering team. This full-time, remote position requires expertise in managing database infrastructure, ensuring reliability, and optimizing performance across production, QA, and development environments.

The ideal candidate will possess deep knowledge of Amazon AWS RDS Aurora and Postgres, with strong interpersonal and collaboration skills. A competitive salary range of $205,000 – $235,000 is offered, alongside equity and additional benefits.