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Staff Application Database Architect

San Francisco💼 Full-time💰 $190,000–$250,000🗓 2026-09-11 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design, build, and own high-performance OLTP database systems powering clinical and operational web services for a medical technology company.

Role type

Staff Application Database Architect

Builds

Production web services and clinical/operational platforms

Domain

Healthcare technology / Clinical data systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

OLTP database engineering, Python/Django ORM, data modeling, database performance tuning, cloud platforms (AWS), technical leadership

Preferred skills

Healthcare data compliance (HIPAA/FHIR), Data Lake exposure, AI semantic data structures

Technologies

PostgreSQL, MySQL, Aurora, Django ORM, SQLAlchemy, AWS (RDS/Aurora, ElastiCache), Redis, Memcached

Responsibilities

Design and optimize OLTP schemas and complex queries; define application data access and ORM strategies; lead database operations and performance excellence; own transactional data modeling; advance semantic structures for AI agents; ensure compliance with FDA/HIPAA/GDPR

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with technical leadership

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