Senior Database Reliability Engineer
PromptPractice Management, company
RemoteSenior
ICONIQ Capital
Amity Ventures
Breachway Capital
Software EngineeringNew
About the role
TL;DR
Owns database reliability, performance, and cost-efficiency for Prompt Health's production databases.
- •Prompt Health is seeking a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to own the health, performance, and cost-efficiency of their databases.
- •This role involves preventing recurring problems, shaping architecture for scalability, and optimizing query performance.
- •Key Responsibilities Own the reliability, performance, and availability of all production databases (Aurora MySQL on AWS).
- •Manage database alerting end to end, building observability pipelines and folding after-hours alerts into on-call rotation.
- •Educate engineering teams on database hygiene and best-performing queries.
- •Implement automated safeguards for long-running queries and visibility into executions.
- •Architect and right-size Aurora reader topology and read-routing strategy.
- •Requirements 6+ years in database reliability engineering, administration, or engineering.
- •Deep MySQL expertise including query optimization, execution-plan analysis, indexing, and replication.
- •Hands-on experience operating large Aurora or RDS clusters at terabyte scale.
- •Strong command of database observability tooling (Datadog, PMM, Performance Insights).
- •Proficiency in a scripting language (Python, Bash) and comfort with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).
Required skills
AWSMySQLDatadogPythonBashTerraformSQLRDS
Nice-to-have skills
PostgreSQLMongoDBRedisElasticsearchDynamoDBPHP
Domain expertise
healthtech
Benefits & perks
Competitive salaries, Remote/hybrid environment, Potential equity compensation, Flexible PTO, Company-wide sponsored lunches, Company paid disability and life insurance benefits, Company paid family and medical leave, Medical, dental, and vision insurance benefits, Discounted pet insurance, FSA/DCA and commuter benefits, 401k, Credits for online fitness classes/gym memberships, Recovery suite at HQ
Tech stack
AWSMySQLDatadogPythonBashTerraformRDSPostgreSQLMongoDBRedisElasticsearchDynamoDBSQLPHP