Staff Engineer, Database Platform

Join the Team Modernizing Medicine

AtModMed were not just building softwarewere reimagining the healthcare experience. Founded in 2010 by a practicing physician and a successful tech entrepreneur we took a radically different approach:we hired doctors and taught them how to code.This for doctors by doctors philosophy has allowed us to create an AI-enabled specialty-specific cloud platform that places patients at the center of care.

A Culture of Excellence

When you join ModMed youre joining an award-winning team recognized for innovation and employee satisfaction. From our global headquarters in Boca Raton Florida and extensive employee base in Hyderabad India we are a team of 4500 passionate problem-solvers on a mission to increase medical practice success and improve patient outcomes:

• Consistently ranked as a Top Place to Work

• 2025 Globee Business Awards:Gold Globee for Technology Team of the Year

• 2025 Black Book Awards:Ranked #1 EHR in 11 Specialties

• Florida Venture Forum:Venture-Backed Company of the Year

We are growing fast thinking big and we are just getting started.

Ready to modernize medicine with us

Job Description Summary:

ModMed is seeking a strategic and technical Staff Engineer Database Platform to lead our data infrastructure engineering and operations. Reporting to the Sr Manager Database Platform and Architecture you will ensure the high availability performance and security of our mission-critical SQL and NoSQL systems and Streaming Services. You will own the end-to-end database lifecycle championing database-as-code methodologies to remove developer friction while strictly enforcing reliability standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Leadership: Define the platforms architectural roadmap and act as the primary stakeholder for database reliability.

• Platform Engineering: Oversee automated provisioning and scaling for SQL and NoSQL databases driving Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and self-service tooling adoption.

• Operations & Performance: Establish system SLOs/SLIs implement advanced observability tools for proactive monitoring and act as the ultimate escalation point for complex incidents.

• Schema Management: Treat schema changes as code by integrating automated migrations (e.g. Flyway Liquibase) into CI/CD pipelines and establishing zero-downtime deployment practices.

• Security & DR: Enforce strict RBAC access ensure industry-standard encryption and own the comprehensive Backup and Disaster Recovery (DR) strategy.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology System Engineering or a related field.

• 10 years of progressive experience in database administration database engineering or SRE

• Demonstrated experience leading and overseeing automated database provisioning scaling and lifecycle management using Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform Ansible).

• Deep technical expertise operating and tuning both SQL (e.g. PostgreSQL MySQL) and NoSQL (e.g. MongoDB Redis Cassandra) database technologies at scale.

• Hands-on experience managing highly available database environments within public cloud infrastructures (AWS GCP or Azure).

• Strong understanding of continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines and automated schema migration tools (e.g. Flyway Liquibase).

• Expert knowledge of database high availability (HA) disaster recovery (DR) strategies security best practices (RBAC encryption) and advanced performance tuning.

• Familiarity with Streaming Platforms such as Kafka

ModMed Benefits Highlight: At ModMed we believe its important to offer a competitive benefits package designed to meet the diverse needs of our growing workforce. Eligible Modernizers can enroll in a wide range of benefits:

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• Comprehensive medical dental and vision benefits including a company Health Savings Account contribution
• 401(k): ModMed provides a matching contribution each payday of 50% of your contribution deferred on up to 6% of your compensation. After one year of employment with ModMed 100% of any matching contribution you receive is yours to keep.
• Generous Paid Time Off and Paid Parental Leave programs
• Company paid Life and Disability benefits Flexible Spending Account and Employee Assistance Programs
• Company-sponsored Business Resource & Special Interest Groups that provide engaged and supportive communities within ModMed
• Professional development opportunities including tuition reimbursement programs and unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning
• Global presence and in-person collaboration opportunities; dog-friendly HQ (US) Hybrid office-based roles and remote availability for some roles
• Weekly catered breakfast and lunch treadmill workstations Zen and wellness rooms within our BRIC headquarters.

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