Staff Database Engineer

Role Description

We’re hiring a Staff Database Engineer - PostgreSQL to join our Platform Engineering team at Healthie. You’ll be a key contributor to one of the most important pieces of digital infrastructure in the healthcare space. Our platform is growing rapidly, and we need someone who can ensure our databases scale, perform, and remain reliable.

• Responsible for database infrastructure administration across production, QA, and development environments.
• Ensure smooth operation, monitor performance, and maintain automation scripts.
• Shape how we deploy, scale, monitor, and refine our data model using your expertise in PostgreSQL.
• Own our Aurora databases, managing database setup, configuration, upgrades, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Design and execute zero or minimal downtime upgrades and disaster recovery solutions.
• Implement best practices for partitioning, archiving, and accessing archived data.
• Measure and optimize system performance, capacity planning, and security instrumentation.
• Collaborate with feature teams to facilitate schema and query improvements.
• Observe application behavior to prioritize query optimizations.

At Healthie, we’re all about building high-quality, reliable infrastructure that enables better healthcare. If you’re passionate about database performance, scalability, and impact-driven work, we’d love to hear from you.

We are looking for team members who actively leverage AI-powered development tools, embrace automation, and help teams adopt modern, AI-assisted engineering practices to increase velocity and quality.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in Amazon AWS RDS Aurora, Postgres replication, partitioning, clustering, high availability, backup, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Experience in mission-critical environments, ensuring database reliability, performance, and scalability.
• Strong foundation in designing, scaling, and optimizing Postgres deployments.
• Strong proficiency in tools like Terraform, PG Bouncer, scripting, and postgres monitoring systems.
• Experience in building and maintaining infrastructure for critically important applications.

Requirements

• Bonus points for experience in healthcare or other regulated industries.
• Strong ability to prioritize platform needs, balancing short-term fixes with long-term scalability.
• Collaborative leader who influences without authority.
• Very strong interpersonal, collaboration, and communication skills.
• Bias toward execution—focus on getting things done.
• Thrive in fast-paced, problem-solving environments.
• Mission-driven, excited about building infrastructure that improves patient outcomes.
• Take initiative and problem-solve effectively.

Benefits

• This is a full-time, remote position within the United States.
• U.S. work authorization is required.
• The base salary range is $205,000 - $235,000 plus equity, annual bonus + benefits.

Interview Process

• Quick chat with Talent team (15 minutes)
• Interview with Matt, Engineering Manager, Platform (30 minutes)
• Technical Assessment with CJ (60 minutes)
• Executive Interview with Cavan, CTO + cofounder (20 minutes)
• Reference checks

Company Description

Healthie participates in e-verify.

Healthie is committed to equal employment opportunity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability, or any other protected category. We're proud to be building a diverse and inclusive environment that encourages collaboration, creativity, and growth. Whatever your background, please apply if this is a role that would make you excited to come into work every day.