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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 NoSQL) 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.

QualificationsBasic 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 BigQuery/BigTable.
• 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 datawarehousing/analytics and NoSQL platforms.
• Experience with designing and implementing data pipelines using GCP BigQuery, 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 You're Like

You're relentless in getting stuff done. You apply your expertise in an Agile/DevOps world with other talented people. You're curious about new technology and use your curiosity as fuel to deliver meaningful solutions. And you're into incremental efforts that ultimately reap huge results.

What We're Like

We're a smart team that loves to work toward a common goal: delivering innovative, industry-leading solutions that improve patient care. We pride ourselves on quality work grounded in transparency and accountability. Our goal is to make a positive impact on healthcare, be it on quality, cost, or patient safety.

What the Work is Like

Is your thinking cap on? (Do they still make those?) Here, our challenge is to connect disparate, cross-functional skills to create the desired result. We focus on important milestones, work to understand diverse technologies and develop relationships with various groups of people with varied perspectives.

Why Wait? Apply Now

We're a midsize company. This means you're not just another employee ID number. Here, you can build real relationships and feel supported by truly awesome people with diverse backgrounds and talents in an innovative and collaborative work culture. We strive to create an environment where you can be yourself, share your ideas and work your way. We offer opportunities for employee development, as well as competitive compensation packages and extensive benefits.

At Surescripts, base pay is one part of our Total Rewards Package (which may also include bonus, benefits etc.) and is determined within a range. The base pay range for this position is $133,000 - $162,600 per year. Your base pay may vary within or outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including (but not limited to) your qualifications, skills, experience, and location.

Benefits include, but are not limited to, comprehensive healthcare (including infertility coverage), generous paid time off including paid childbirth and parental leave and mental health days, pet insurance, and 401(k) with company match and immediate vesting. To learn more, review the Keep You and Yours Healthy, Balancing Work and Life, and Where Talent Takes Shape links under the Better Benefits. Better Work. Better Life section of our careers site.

Physical and Mental Requirements

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 is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, parental status, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.