Senior Database Engineer- PostgreSQL - Remote

Our mission: to power virtual-first care delivery while improving access to healthcare and enabling better healthcare outcomes through technology.

Healthie powers next generation healthcare delivery. We build infrastructure that all healthcare organizations need to perform virtual-first care. Between our EHR, scheduling, and patient engagement solutions, Healthie’s API-first approach makes it easy for organizations of every size to build, customize, and scale their business.

Today, we power thousands of organizations – ranging from small private practices, to digital health startups and multi-billion-dollar healthcare companies. Leveraging Healthie, our customers deliver care to millions of patients, across the full spectrum of healthcare services – from preventative health & wellness to complex chronic care management. 

We believe that the future of healthcare delivery is virtual-first, longitudinal, and collaborative. Learn more at https://www.gethealthie.com/

As a Senior Database Engineer - PostgreSQL you will be a critical contributor to Healthie’s Platform Engineering team.

You will be joining a platform team of specialists. You will bring your domain expertise in postgres database design and deployment to join the team. You will be transformational in how we deploy postgres, how we scale it (horizontal + vertical), how we monitor it to know what's going on, and how we feed that back to fix healthie's data model.

Strong familiarity with ORMs, in particular Rails/ActiveRecord, is a big plus! 

Responsibilities: What you’ll be doing and held accountable for:

Extensive knowledge of Postgres deployment, operation, and performance at scale.

• Deployment architecture
• Excitement and confidence in scaling from 10k to 100k queries per second while reducing latency.
• Expertise in Postgres replication, partitioning, clustering, and cloud scaling strategies.
• Experience in database load balancing
• Familiarity with major cloud offerings, with an eye for potential …