Veradigm® develops cloud-based healthcare technology for providers, payers, and life-sciences organizations. Its connected platform brings together clinical and financial software, including electronic health records, practice management, revenue cycle services, e-prescribing, data exchange, APIs, analytics, real-world data and evidence tools, quality and risk-adjustment solutions, and patient engagement capabilities. Through the Veradigm Network, these products support care delivery, healthcare operations, and research across the healthcare ecosystem.
Principal Database Platform Engineer, United States Remote
Lead the architecture and operation of Veradigm’s healthcare database platform across AWS and Azure. Drive reliability, security, high availability, disaster recovery, and AI-assisted database operations.
Canada
United States$130,241 – $189,502 / year
RemoteFull-timeLeadEnglish RequiredBackend EngineerSoftware EngineerDescription
- Lead the architecture, delivery, reliability, and lifecycle management of Veradigm’s database platform across multiple engines and cloud providers
- Design complete database solutions, covering engine and deployment-model selection, server and storage architecture, multi-cloud infrastructure, high availability, and disaster recovery
- Own 24/7 production reliability and act as the final escalation point for major outages, complex performance incidents, and cross-team database problems
- Define database architectures for new business needs, including engine, deployment model, topology, sizing, integration patterns, and availability targets up to 99.99%
- Build and implement database infrastructure across AWS and Azure
- Create and review Terraform infrastructure as code for provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle automation
- Manage database security, integrity, and performance through access controls, encryption, audit logging, HIPAA-aligned PHI safeguards, vulnerability management, and integrity checks
- Establish monitoring, observability, and alerting across database environments and cloud platforms
- Lead complex performance investigations and database emergency response across product engineering teams
- Provide technical guidance to peers and assign work across projects of varying size
- Implement and document enhancement requests independently
- Evaluate and approve technical design specifications
- Design, audit, and validate high-availability and disaster-recovery solutions, including failover, replication, RPO/RTO planning, backups, point-in-time recovery, and restoration exercises
- Manage multiple database platform initiatives from requirements and architecture through implementation, scheduling, deployment, testing, and handoff
- Act as a subject matter expert across database technologies, AWS, Azure, managed PaaS, and self-managed IaaS environments
- Set the technical direction for AI-assisted database operations, including LLM-supported design, machine-learning anomaly detection, automated tuning, and natural-language operational tools
- Work standard or assignment-defined hours and provide on-call or after-hours support during peak periods
- Travel up to 10% when required
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent technical or business experience
- At least 10 years of relevant experience, including 2–3 years at expert level or equivalent experience preferred
- Expert proficiency with SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, and Snowflake
- Expert capability in database performance monitoring, tuning, and incident triage
- Expert proficiency with T-SQL, PowerShell, Python, Bash, and Terraform
- Expert experience engineering databases across AWS and Azure
- Expert understanding of database server, storage, and network architecture
- Expert understanding of high-availability and disaster-recovery architectures supporting 99.99% availability
- Working knowledge of change-management principles
- Expert project-management knowledge
- Ability to collaborate effectively and accept constructive feedback
- Ability to advise and partner with product and engineering teams
- Up to 10% travel may be required
- Availability for after-hours, on-call, and holiday support may be required
- Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States or Canada
- Visa sponsorship is not available
- Preferred certifications include ITIL Foundations, MTA Database Fundamentals, MCSA Database Administrator, Azure Fundamentals, Azure Data Fundamentals, and Microsoft Certified Azure Data Engineer Associate
Benefits
- Paid holidays
- Vacation leave
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Company-paid life insurance
- Retirement savings plan
- Professional development assistance
- Remote work flexibility
- Flexible work arrangements
- Equal employment opportunity and affirmative action