Staff Engineer, Database Platform

## Staff Engineer, Database Platform Apply:
Hybrid:
Boca Raton, FL:
Full time:
Posted 2 Days Ago:
R5001
** Join the Team Modernizing Medicine
** At
** Mod Med**, 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 Mod Med, 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:

** Mod Med 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 No

SQL 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 No

SQL 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 No

SQL (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
*** Mod Med Benefits Highlight:
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