• You are an expert:
• Amazon AWS RDS Aurora
• Postgres replication, partitioning, clustering
• Postgres availability, backup, and disaster recovery strategies
• High Availability
• Prioritization matters: Ability to prioritize platform needs to both short term and long term business needs
• Strong interpersonal, collaboration, and communication skills: You care about people - your colleagues, our customers, and everyone around you. People want to work for and with you. You lead with influence, not authority
• Grit: You have a bias towards execution. You focus on getting the job done, and nothing slows you down
• Mission driven: You want to work at a place that cares deeply about helping to improve patient outcomes and experiences
• Embody Good Citizen Principles: You incorporate Healthie’s values (Respect, Reliability, Resilience) in your work

Desirable

• As a Senior Database Engineer - PostgreSQL you will be a critical contributor to Healthie’s Platform Engineering team
• The Healthie product is one of the most important pieces of digital infrastructure in the healthcare landscape, and increasingly so every day
• The Platform team is responsible for the infrastructure and reliability of this platform
• Our roadmaps are always designed with the goal of achieving the best possible outcomes
• Joining our platform team of specialists, you will bring your expertise in PostgreSQL database design and deployment
• You will play a transformative role in how we deploy, scale (both horizontally and vertically), monitor, and refine our PostgreSQL databases, directly enhancing Healthie's data model
• Amazon AWS RDS Aurora Postgres deployment, operation, and performance at scale
• Leading and owning our transition from standalone Postgres instances hosted on a PAAS to Aurora
• Administration of production, QA, and development database infrastructure
• Database Infrastructure Setup, Configuration, upgrading/Patching, Monitoring and solving
• Maintain automation scripts for database infrastructure
• Design and execute standard and robust methodologies for partitioning tables, archiving data, and accessing archived data
• Design and execute zero- or minimal-downtime upgrades
• Design, test, and (hopefully never) execute disaster recovery solutions
• Measurement and optimization of system performance
• Best practices configuration and tuning of postgres for performance, maintenance, and availability
• Capacity planning and forecast management
• Continually improving performance and security instrumentation
• Observing application behavior to prioritize opportunities for query improvements
• Becoming expertly familiar with application schema in order to maintain a medium- and long-term roadmap
• Collaborating with feature-dev squads to facilitate schema and query improvements
• Identify problem areas and collaborate with squads to identify and address concerns

• Resume Review
• Round 1: Preliminary Interview- 15 minutes (Director of Talent)
• Round 2: HM Interview- 30 minutes (Director, Engineering)
• Round 3: Take Home Assessment
• Round 4: Behavioral Interview
• Round 5: Technical Interview
• Round 6: Executive Interview (CTO + co founder)
• Reference Check