Senior Database Developer

TL;DR

Senior Database Developer (MongoDB/AWS): Design and implement high-performance MongoDB solutions and manage AWS RDS (MySQL/Aurora) instances with an accent on scalability, security, performance, and cost efficiency. Focus on supporting deployments with EKS, optimizing data models/queries/indexing, monitoring with CloudWatch/Datadog, and ensuring data integrity/disaster recovery.

Location: San Diego, CA or Atlanta, GA, United States (onsite)

Company

Global leader in medical devices focused on sleep apnea and respiratory care products impacting customers worldwide.

What you will do

• Design and implement high-performance MongoDB solutions for demanding workloads.
• Manage and optimize AWS RDS (MySQL/Aurora) instances for security, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Support database deployments and orchestration using EKS (Kubernetes).
• Collaborate on efficient data models, queries, and indexing strategies.
• Handle schema versioning/scripts with GitHub and Flyway.
• Monitor/tune performance with native tools, AWS CloudWatch, Datadog, and address bottlenecks.
• Ensure data integrity, security, compliance, and disaster recovery readiness.
• Support migrations across RDBMS platforms.

Requirements

• 3+ years with MongoDB (architecture, design, optimization, operations)
• 1–2 years with MySQL (Aurora) development/administration
• Hands-on AWS with RDS/Aurora
• Familiarity with Kubernetes (EKS) and containerized deployments.
• Experience with GitHub version control and CI/CD workflows.
• Strong database performance tuning, troubleshooting, query optimization.
• Understanding of SDLC.
• Strong communication/collaboration skills.
• Knowledge of database security, disaster recovery, data migration.

Nice to have

• Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• CI/CD pipelines for database changes.
• Monitoring, automation, container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Additional AWS services (Lambda, CloudWatch, IAM).

Culture & Benefits

• People-first culture emphasizing growth, learning, engineering excellence.
• Influence database/platform design decisions.
• Collaborative environment with cross-team partnerships.
• Impact on customer-facing healthcare products.
• Diverse, inclusive culture encouraging innovation and individual expression.