Senior Database Administrator – Reliability, Performance

Prescryptive Health, Inc.

Senior Database Administrator managing SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB at healthcare technology company. Ensuring database reliability and performance across diverse data environments.

Posted 6/6/2026full-timeRemote • Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $155,000 - $190,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudMongoDBPostgresSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

SQL ServerPostgreSQLMongoDBdatabase performance tuningbackup and recoverydisaster recovery planningtroubleshootingquery optimizationmonitoring strategiesobservability

Soft Skills

problem-solvingcommunicationcollaborationteamworkadaptability