Senior Database Administrator Reliability & Performance

Prescryptive Health, Inc.•Washington, DC

1d•$155,000 - $190,000•Remote

About The Position

Prescryptive is the healthcare technology company enabling the direct access marketplace for prescription drugs. Our platform aligns incentives, so affordability, choice, and patient access become the natural outcome of a functioning system. We are looking for a dedicated Senior Database Administrator to support a growing team managing diverse data environments. The ideal candidate will help maintain, optimize, and support multiple database systems across the organization, ensuring reliability, performance, compliance, and scalability as the platform continues to expand. As the database operations mature and key improvements are implemented, this role will evolve to include ownership of our observability strategy with a particular focus on monitoring, alerting, and operational visibility. This is a unique opportunity for someone who enjoys both deep database administration and proactive system monitoring, helping drive reliability across the entire technology platform.

Requirements

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.

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.