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American Healthtech, a PointClickCare CompanyInt Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE)
American Healthtech, a PointClickCare Company, is seeking a Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) to join its team on a full-time, remote basis. This position involves managing, building,…
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American Healthtech, a PointClickCare Company, is seeking a Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) to join its team on a full-time, remote basis. This position involves managing, building, maintaining, monitoring, and troubleshooting cloud-based database infrastructures that support critical software-as-a-service applications. The person in this role will work alongside engineering and site reliability engineering teams to support new products requiring database capabilities, streamline operations through automation, and minimize manual tasks. This role suits…
Job Description
American Healthtech, a PointClickCare Company, is seeking a Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) to join its team on a full-time, remote basis. This position involves managing, building, maintaining, monitoring, and troubleshooting cloud-based database infrastructures that support critical software-as-a-service applications. The person in this role will work alongside engineering and site reliability engineering teams to support new products requiring database capabilities, streamline operations through automation, and minimize manual tasks.
This role suits professionals with experience in relational database systems who want to focus on data-driven performance, availability improvements, and infrastructure scalability. Employees in this position may occasionally need to travel to the Mississauga or Salt Lake City offices for company events, onboarding, or team meetings, and participation in on-call or after-hours work is required.
Responsibilities
- Manage, build, maintain, monitor, and troubleshoot cloud-based database infrastructure
- Monitor relevant database metrics to ensure desired reliability objectives are met
- Partner with the database administration team to automate operational workflows and reduce toil
- Apply a data-driven approach to enhance performance and availability across platforms
- Assist engineering and site reliability teams with migrations, query performance, and schema designs
- Troubleshoot operational workloads, performance issues, and perform root-cause analysis
- Standardize database configurations, deployment patterns, and operational processes for SQL Server and PostgreSQL
- Handle and prioritize operational tickets, service requests, incidents, and maintenance tasks
Requirements
- At least 3 years of experience working with relational database systems
- Minimum of 1 year of experience in a database, site reliability engineering, or related engineering role
- Hands-on administrative experience with SQL Server or PostgreSQL, including performance tuning, replication, high availability, and disaster recovery
- Experience operating in cloud environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Experience using infrastructure as code tools like Ansible and Terraform
- Coding and automation capabilities in PowerShell, C#, SQL, Python, or Go
- Familiarity with source control systems such as Git
- Availability for on-call or after-hours work
Qualifications
- University or college education in Database Management, Software Engineering, or a related field
- Preference for SQL Server or PostgreSQL expertise, alongside Azure cloud experience
- Experience handling large databases exceeding 1 terabyte and managing large database environments
- Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, Grafana, ClickHouse, and NoSQL databases
- Exposure to artificial intelligence tools, technologies, or AI-assisted development and automation
Core Skills
Benefits
- Benefits beginning on the first day of employment
- Retirement plan matching
- Flexible paid time off
- Wellness support programs and resources
- Parental and caregiver leaves
- Fertility and adoption support
- Continuous development support program
- Employee assistance program
- Allyship and inclusion communities
- Employee recognition initiatives
Frequently Asked Questions
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Is this position remote?
Yes, this is a remote role, though it requires occasional travel to the Mississauga or Salt Lake City offices for onboarding, team events, and semi-annual or annual team meetings.
What is the salary range for this role?
The Canadian base salary range is between $103,400 and $129,300 per year, and the total rewards package also includes a bonus, equity, and benefits.
What experience is required for the Database Reliability Engineer position?
Candidates must have at least three years of experience with relational database systems, one year in a database, SRE, or engineering role, and hands-on administrative experience with SQL Server or PostgreSQL.
Does the job require after-hours work?
Yes, some on-call or after-hours work is required for this position.
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