Principal Database Engineer

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🔥 14 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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NextGen Healthcare

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1998

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

💰 Venture Round on 2015-02

Healthcare • Consulting • Healthcare Insurance

NextGen Healthcare is a company that provides integrated health IT solutions to ambulatory practices. Their services include electronic health records (EHR), practice management, interoperability, patient engagement, and telehealth solutions. They aim to enhance the patient and provider experience through innovative technologies such as AI-driven workflows and mobile solutions. NextGen Healthcare also offers tailored solutions for various specialties and focuses on improving clinical and financial outcomes for their clients. They support practices of all sizes, from small offices to large enterprises, and emphasize the importance of interoperability and data exchange to enhance healthcare delivery.

📋 Description

• Define, architect, evolve, and govern highly available, resilient, and secure enterprise database platforms across AWS and GCP • Lead reliability, performance, scalability, and lifecycle management of Microsoft SQL Server platforms • Drive enterprise-wide migrations and modernization initiatives toward PostgreSQL and cloud-native database services • Design and develop automated frameworks for database provisioning, patching, backup validation, failover testing, and routine maintenance using IaC and configuration management • Partner with Platform Engineering on database release automation, CI/CD pipelines, schema versioning, and environment standardization • Collaborate with application development teams on database design, query performance, schema evolution, and deployment strategies • Establish database observability standards, telemetry, logging, alerting, and performance analytics • Define and improve database reliability objectives, recovery strategies, and operational readiness practices • Lead root cause analysis and permanent corrective actions after major production incidents • Author engineering standards, reusable automation modules, and technical documentation • Align database technology roadmaps with business goals • Evaluate emerging database and data-tier technologies for reliability, scalability, security, and cost efficiency • Serve as primary technical authority for database architecture and cloud migrations • Mentor junior and mid-level engineers and influence technical strategy across the engineering organization • Support strategic cloud initiatives across AWS and Google Cloud • Perform other duties supporting the overall objective of the position

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical field, or any combination of education and experience providing the required qualifications • 10+ years of experience designing, supporting, and managing enterprise relational database platforms in production • Extensive experience operating in public cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure) • Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and DevOps practices • Experience participating in incident response, root cause analysis, SRE initiatives, schema versioning, and release automation • Experience mentoring engineers, influencing enterprise technical standards, and driving legacy database migrations to cloud-native or open-source platforms • Experience supporting cloud-native applications, Kubernetes, or containerized workloads; experience in SaaS, healthcare, or highly regulated industries preferred • Microsoft SQL Server certification or equivalent experience • Expert-level Microsoft SQL Server administration, engine internals, HADR strategies, and performance engineering • Knowledge of PostgreSQL or other enterprise relational database platforms, database design, query optimization, and modernization pathways • Knowledge of public cloud architectures (AWS/GCP), Kubernetes, and infrastructure automation principles • Knowledge of observability and monitoring frameworks, including Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry preferred • Advanced scripting and programming using PowerShell, Python, Bash, or equivalent languages • Database performance engineering, advanced SQL query tuning, and troubleshooting distributed data systems • Ability to influence technical strategy and translate complex technical concepts into actionable architectures • Ability to communicate complex technical designs clearly and author technical standards and documentation

🏖️ Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer • Inclusive work environment • Mentoring opportunities • Exposure to strategic cloud initiatives and enterprise technology modernization