Staff Engineer, Database Platform
Modernizing Medicine, Inc.1 day ago
Boca Raton, FL, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define the database platform architectural roadmap and act as the primary stakeholder for database reliability.
- Lead automated provisioning, scaling, lifecycle management, infrastructure-as-code, and self-service tooling for SQL and NoSQL databases.
- Establish SLOs and SLIs, implement observability, proactively monitor systems, and serve as the escalation point for complex incidents.
- Integrate automated schema migrations into CI/CD pipelines and establish zero-downtime deployment practices.
- Own database access controls, encryption, backup, and disaster recovery strategy.
- Operate and tune highly available database environments and streaming services at scale.
Requirements
- 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 leadership of automated database provisioning, scaling, and lifecycle management using infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Ansible.
- Deep experience operating and tuning PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, and Cassandra at scale.
- Hands-on experience managing highly available databases in AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and automated schema migration tools such as Flyway or Liquibase.
- Expertise in high availability, disaster recovery, RBAC, encryption, and advanced performance tuning.
- Familiarity with streaming platforms such as Kafka.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits, including a company Health Savings Account contribution.
- 401(k) matching contribution of 50% on contributions deferred up to 6% of compensation, with matching contributions fully vested after one year.
- Generous paid time off and paid parental leave.
- Company-paid life and disability benefits, flexible spending account, and employee assistance programs.
- Company-sponsored business resource and special interest groups.
- Professional development opportunities, tuition reimbursement, and unlimited LinkedIn Learning access.
- Global presence and in-person collaboration opportunities, with a dog-friendly US headquarters.
- Hybrid office-based roles and remote availability for some roles.
- Weekly catered breakfast and lunch, treadmill workstations, Zen rooms, and wellness rooms at the Boca Raton headquarters.
Tech Stack
AnsibleApache CassandraApache KafkaAWSAzureFlywayGoogle Cloud PlatformMongoDBMySQLPostgreSQLRedisTerraform
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About Modernizing Medicine, Inc.
Modernizing Medicine (ModMed) builds a specialty-specific, cloud-based platform for medical practices that integrates electronic health records, practice management, revenue cycle management, analytics, and patient engagement tools. The company sells its software and services on a subscription and services basis to outpatient specialties such as dermatology, ophthalmology, orthopedics, and gastroenterology. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida, ModMed is privately held and backed by Clearlake Capital Group.