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.

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.

• 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.

• 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 practices
• 5+ years of experience with developing, deploying, tuning, and supporting large, highly available database environments
• 3+ 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.

• 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.

• While performing duties of this job, an employee may be required to perform any, or all of the following: attend meetings in and out of the office, travel, communicate effectively (both orally and in writing), and be able to effectively use computers and other electronic and standard office equipment with, or without, a reasonable accommodation.
• Additionally, this job requires certain mental demands, including the ability to use judgement, withstand moderate amounts of stress and maintain attention to detail with, or without, a reasonable accommodation.

Surescripts does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition,…