Staff Engineer, Database Platform
Core
Lead data infrastructure engineering and operations for mission-critical SQL and NoSQL systems and streaming services.
Role type
Staff Engineer, Database Platform
Builds
High-availability, secure, and performant database platforms supporting healthcare applications
Domain
Healthcare technology / Cloud Infrastructure
Deliverable
infrastructure
Required skills
Database administration and engineering, SQL and NoSQL database tuning, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, Automated schema migration, High availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) strategies, Security best practices (RBAC, encryption), Streaming platforms (Kafka), Public cloud management (AWS, GCP, Azure)
Preferred skills
Leading architectural roadmap definition, Self-service tooling adoption, Advanced observability implementation
Technologies
PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra, Terraform, Ansible, Flyway, Liquibase, Kafka, AWS, GCP, Azure
Responsibilities
Define the platform's architectural roadmap, oversee automated provisioning and scaling, establish system SLOs/SLIs and implement observability tools, manage schema changes via automated migrations, enforce security and DR strategies
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with leadership scope