Senior Database Engineer

Surescripts serves the nation through simpler, trusted health intelligence sharing, in order to increase patient safety, lower costs and ensure quality care . We deliver insights at critical points of care for better decisions — from streamlining prior authorizations to delivering comprehensive medication histories to facilitating messages between providers.

Job Summary The Senior Database Engineer designs, implements, and optimizes secure, highly available, and scalable database platforms (relational and No

SQL) by leveraging automation, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD practices. The role applies strong data modeling, schema design, and SQL development to build efficient, well-structured databases. This role ensures compliance and observability across database environments and collaborates with agile teams to deliver resilient, integrated solutions that meet business and application requirements.

Responsibilities Work in an agile development process to develop and implement requirements to ensure database design and performance meet business requirements. Own the datastore end-to-end, designing schemas, indexes, partitions, and storage layouts and tuning query performance, connection pooling, replication, and backups to ensure efficient and reliable data access.

Design, provision, and operate cloud native databases to meet availability, performance, and scalability objectives for high-volume business critical workloads.

Manage databases using infrastructure-as-code to ensure consistent, repeatable and version-controlled provisioning and configuration across all environments.

Own the automated schema management pipeline, including designing and implementing policy-as-code best practices to ensure the safety of changes.

Design and implement redundant, highly available database architectures with automated failover and disaster recovery to ensure data protection, integrity, and business continuity

Conduct research and make recommendations on database products, services, protocols, and standards in support of business needs.

Qualifications Basic Requirements:

Bachelor degree in computer science, information systems or computer engineering or related field or equivalent experience

Strong understanding of relational database structures, theories, principles, and practices5+ years of experience with developing, deploying, tuning, and supporting large, highly available database environments3+ years of experience with database platforms including AlloyDB or other PostgreSQL-compatible engines, Cassandra, and Big Query/Big Table.
3+ years of experience with SQL and database programming (pgSQL, CQL, PL/SQL).3+ years of experience with automation tooling such as Ansible, Terraform, Python, Flyway.
3+ years of hands-on experience operating databases in a public cloud.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with cloud data warehousing/analytics and No

SQL platforms.

Experience with designing and implementing data pipelines using GCP Big Query, Dataflow, and Airflow.

Experience with observability tooling (e.g. Datadog, Grafana)

Experience with database replication (e.g. Striim, pglogical)
In-depth technical knowledge of network and operating systems, including Linux and Windows Direct experience with Google Cloud AlloyDB#LI-Remote Surescripts embraces flexibility through its Flexible Hybrid Work model for most positions. This model allows employees to work virtually while still utilizing our offices as collaboration centers. With alignment and agreement from your leadership, you can come and go from the office as needed.

To be considered for employment, applicants must have a valid U.S. work authorization allowing work without restrictions with Surecripts in the U.S. At this time, we are unable to provide support or provide sponsorship for immigration benefits such as work visas. Additionally, we do not participate in academic training programs or work-study programs through an academic institution that require employer endorsement of F-1/CPT or F-1/STEM.What

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