Senior Cloud Database Administrator

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee Production Database Systems

• Administer and provide support for DrChrono’s cloud database environments hosted on AWS

• Manage MariaDB on AWS RDS, including tasks such as maintaining replica sets, monitoring replication health, performing backups and restores, configuring settings, and ensuring failover readiness

• Utilize Bytebase to assist in managing database access, modifications, and workflows

• Engage in database-related production support, incident resolution, and root cause analyses (RCAs)

• Assist with backup, restore, disaster recovery, and business continuity protocols

• Lead proactive troubleshooting of database performance issues within the production environment

• Evaluate slow queries, locking, replication lag, indexing, connection behaviors, and various workload patterns

• Optimize queries, indexes, schema patterns, and database configurations to enhance performance and reliability

• Collaborate with engineering teams to identify application-level database challenges and propose effective solutions

• Establish repeatable processes for diagnosing and resolving recurring database problems

• Define standards for database administration, access control, change management, and release support

• Support capacity planning, scaling decisions, and the overall management of the database lifecycle

• Maintain comprehensive documentation for database environments, operational procedures, and recovery processes

• Collaborate with Security and Compliance teams to ensure the secure handling of Protected Health Information (PHI)

⛳️ Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in database administration within production software environments

• Extensive experience with MariaDB on AWS RDS

• Proficient experience with AWS Aurora

• Practical experience in administering AWS-hosted database services

• Strong skills in troubleshooting database performance issues in production settings

• Solid database performance tuning capabilities, including query evaluation, indexing, locking, schema examination, and workload optimization

• Familiarity with using Bytebase for database management, modifications, or workflow support

• Experience managing RDS replica sets, monitoring replication behavior, ensuring failover readiness, and handling backups and production operations

• Direct experience with Redis in production contexts

• Comprehensive understanding of database reliability, capacity planning, disaster recovery, and operational best practices

• Significant experience supporting SaaS, cloud-hosted, or high-availability database platforms

• Background in healthcare technology, healthcare SaaS, or other regulated data environments (highly preferred)

• Experience with HIPAA-compliant systems and secure handling of PHI (highly preferred)

• Proven ability to collaborate with SRE, DevOps, infrastructure, or platform engineering teams (highly preferred)

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexibility to work in a manner that suits you best within your country of employment – whether in-office, remote, or hybrid

• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits, including an annual wellness stipend

• Continuous investment in your professional growth through Udemy

• 401k plan with company matching

• Generous and flexible paid time off policy

• Employee Stock Purchase Program