[Remote] Senior Database Administrator Reliability & Performance

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Prescryptive Health, Inc. is a healthcare technology company enabling the direct access marketplace for prescription drugs. They are seeking a dedicated Senior Database Administrator to manage diverse data environments, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability of their database systems.

Responsibilities

• Manage and support multiple database platforms, including SQL Server, PostgreSQL and MongoDB
• Ensure database performance, availability, and reliability across environments
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve database issues in production systems
• Implement best practices for database maintenance, backups, and recovery
• Collaborate with engineering teams to support application development and data needs
• Optimize queries and database structures for performance and scalability
• Support ongoing growth of data infrastructure as new data sources are introduced
• Design, implement, and maintain monitoring dashboards in Datadog
• Create meaningful alerts that reduce noise and improve operational awareness
• Define service-level indicators (SLIs), service-level objectives (SLOs), and alert thresholds
• Develop monitoring strategies for databases, applications, infrastructure, and cloud services
• Build executive, operational, and engineering dashboards

Skills

• Strong experience as a Database Administrator (DBA), ideally in a senior-level role
• Hands-on experience with SQL Server, PostgreSQL and MongoDB databases
• Experience working with diverse data sources and environments
• Solid understanding of database performance tuning and optimization
• Experience with backup, recovery, and disaster recovery planning
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work effectively in a growing, fast-paced team environment
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Experience with Datadog monitoring and alerting
• Experience designing operational dashboards and observability strategies
• Knowledge of SRE principles and reliability engineering practices

Benefits

• Flexible time off, including 12 paid holidays
• 401k match plus 100% employer paid medical, dental, and vision premiums
• Company contribution to Health Savings Account
• Stock options

Company Overview

Prescryptive is a healthcare technology company transforming the U.S. prescription drug market. It was founded in 2017, and is headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://www.prescryptive.com/.

Company H1B Sponsorship

Prescryptive Health, Inc. has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2025, 2 in 2023, 2 in 2022. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.