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Senior Database Engineer

Surescripts · Minneapolis, MN · posted 81 days ago

In short: Senior Database Engineer at Surescripts in Minneapolis, MN, posted 81 days ago.

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81 days agoposted

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The job

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Employer	Surescripts
Location	Minneapolis, Minnesota
Field	Engineering, Construction and Energy › Manufacturing and hardware engineering
Level	Senior Level
Source category	Data and Analytics
Posted	2026-08-19 (81 days ago)
Work arrangement	A remote or flexible location is listed
Pay	Not published in the source listing

Job description

Surescripts serves the nation through simpler, trusted health intelligence sharing, in order to increase patient safety, lower costs and ensure quality care. We deliver insights at critical points of care for better decisions - from streamlining prior authorizations to delivering comprehensive medication histories to facilitating messages between providers.

Job Summary

The Senior Database Engineer designs, implements, and optimizes secure, highly available, and scalable database platforms (relational and NoSQL) by leveraging automation, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD practices. The role applies strong data modeling, schema design, and SQL development to build efficient, well-structured databases. This role ensures compliance and observability across database environments and collaborates with agile teams to deliver resilient, integrated solutions that meet business and application requirements.

Responsibilities

Work in an agile development process to develop and implement requirements to ensure database design and performance meet business requirements. Own the datastore end-to-end, designing schemas, indexes, partitions, and storage layouts and tuning query performance, connection pooling, replication, and backups to ensure efficient and reliable data access.
Design, provision, and operate cloud native databases to meet availability, performance, and scalability objectives for high-volume business critical workloads.
Manage databases using infrastructure-as-code to ensure consistent, repeatable and version-controlled provisioning and configuration across all environments.
Own the automated schema management pipeline, including designing and implementing policy-as-code best practices to ensure the safety of changes.
Design and implement redundant, highly available database architectures with automated failover and disaster recovery to ensure data protection, integrity, and business continuity
Conduct research and make recommendations on database products, services, protocols, and standards in support of business needs.

Qualifications

Basic Requirements:

Bachelor degree in computer science, information systems or computer engineering or related field or equivalent experience
Strong understanding of relational database structures, theories, principles, and practices
5+ years of experience with developing, deploying, tuning, and supporting large, highly available database environments
3+ years of experience with database platforms including AlloyDB or other PostgreSQL-compatible engines, Cassandra, and BigQuery/BigTable.
3+ years of experience with SQL and database programming (pgSQL, CQL, PL/SQL).
3+ years of experience with automation tooling such as Ansible, Terraform, Python, Flyway.
3+ years of hands-on experience operating databases in a public cloud.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with cloud datawarehousing/analytics and NoSQL platforms.
Experience with designing and implementing data pipelines using GCP BigQuery, Dataflow, and Airflow.
Experience with observability tooling (e.g. Datadog, Grafana)
Experience with database replication (e.g. Striim, pglogical)
In-depth technical knowledge of network and operating systems, including Linux and Windows
Direct experience with Google Cloud AlloyDB

#LI-Remote

Surescripts embraces flexibility through its Flexible Hybrid Work model for most positions. This model allows employees to work virtually while still utilizing our offices as collaboration centers. With alignment and agreement from your leadership, you can come and go from the office as needed.

To be considered for employment, applicants must have a valid U.S. work authorization allowing work without restrictions with Surecripts in the U.S. At this time, we are unable to provide support or provide sponsorship for immigration benefits such as work visas. Additionally, we do not participate in academic training programs or work-study programs through an academic institution that require employer endorsement of F-1/CPT or F-1/STEM.

What You're Like

You're relentless in getting stuff done. You apply your expertise in an Agile/DevOps world with other talented people. You're curious about new technology and use your curiosity as fuel to deliver meaningful solutions. And you're into incremental efforts that ultimately reap huge results.

What We're Like

We're a smart team that loves to work toward a common goal: delivering innovative, industry-leading solutions that improve patient care. We pride ourselves on quality work grounded in transparency and accountability. Our goal is to make a positive impact on healthcare, be it on quality, cost, or patient safety.

What the Work is Like

Is your thinking cap on? (Do they still make those?) Here, our challenge is to connect disparate, cross-functional skills to create the desired result. We focus on important milestones, work to understand diverse technologies and develop relationships with various groups of people with varied perspectives.

Why Wait? Apply Now

We're a midsize company. This means you're not just another employee ID number. Here, you can build real relationships and feel supported by truly awesome people with diverse backgrounds and talents in an innovative and collaborative work culture. We strive to create an environment where you can be yourself, share your ideas and work your way. We offer opportunities for employee development, as well as competitive compensation packages and extensive benefits.

At Surescripts, base pay is one part of our Total Rewards Package (which may also include bonus, benefits etc.) and is determined within a range. The base pay range for this position is $133,000 - $162,600 per year. Your base pay may vary within or outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including (but not limited to) your qualifications, skills, experience, and location.

Benefits include, but are not limited to, comprehensive healthcare (including infertility coverage), generous paid time off including paid childbirth and parental leave and mental health days, pet insurance, and 401(k) with company match and immediate vesting. To learn more, review the Keep You and Yours Healthy, Balancing Work and Life, and Where Talent Takes Shape links under the Better Benefits. Better Work. Better Life section of our careers site.

Physical and Mental Requirements

While performing duties of this job, an employee may be required to perform any, or all of the following: attend meetings in and out of the office, travel, communicate effectively (both orally and in writing), and be able to effectively use computers and other electronic and standard office equipment with, or without, a reasonable accommodation. Additionally, this job requires certain mental demands, including the ability to use judgement, withstand moderate amounts of stress and maintain attention to detail with, or without, a reasonable accommodation.

Surescripts is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, parental status, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.

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About the role

This is a Senior Level role in the Engineering, Construction and Energy field (Manufacturing and hardware engineering) at Surescripts. Senior roles usually expect substantial experience, ownership of results and often the ability to guide others.

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The city

The job is in Minneapolis, MN. Below is what the official statistics say about living and working there.

How Minneapolis compares. Among the 80 largest places in Minnesota, Minneapolis is #1 by population, #78 for homeownership (#1 = highest), #10 for remote work (#1 = most), #11 for college degrees (#1 = most). Its county, Hennepin County, is #1 of 87 counties for average pay ($90,157).

The place in numbers

Minneapolis has 427,246 residents (ACS 2020–2024), about 7.4% of the population of Minnesota. It covers 54 square miles of land, which works out to roughly 7,912 people per square mile. The median age is 33.4, 14% younger than the state median (33.4 against 38.8).

Housing

The median gross rent is $1,371 a month (rent plus utilities), 7% above the state median ($1,371 against $1,280). Over a year that is 20.3% of the median household income. US housing guidance treats housing as affordable when it takes 30% of income or less, so the typical household is under that line. The median home value is $362,200, which is 4.5 times the median household income ($80,846). 47.7% of households own their home, 34% below the state average (47.7% against 72.2%). A low ownership share points to a rental-heavy market with more apartments and shorter stays.

Work and pay

The Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metropolitan area has 1,951,650 jobs in the BLS wage survey, and the median pay across all occupations is $59,320 a year, 16% above the national median ($59,320 against $50,980). The biggest occupation groups are office and administrative support (214,110 jobs, median $52,920); sales and related (165,000 jobs, median $43,520); food preparation and serving related (160,260 jobs, median $35,000). The area is most specialised in architecture and engineering (1.3 times) and healthcare support (1.3 times), where the share of workers is above the national share. The best-paying groups with at least 5,000 jobs are management ($132,590) and legal ($110,530). In 2026M09 the unemployment rate of Hennepin County was 4.7%. 72.8% of residents aged 16 and over are in the labour force. The city lies in Hennepin County; its jobs, pay by industry and GDP are on the county page.

Getting around

Among workers, 51.9% drive alone, 6.8% use public transit, 5.8% walk, 26.2% work from home. 7.4% of workers commute 45 minutes or more, 30% below the state average (7.4% against 10.5%). Remote work is more common than in the state as a whole, which widens the set of employers a resident can work for without moving.

People and education

55.5% of adults aged 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 41% above the state share (55.5% against 39.4%). 13.7% of residents were born outside the United States, 58% above the state share (13.7% against 8.7%). The poverty rate is 16.0%, 72% above the state rate (16.0% against 9.3%).

Climate

The warmest month is Jul, averaging 73°F (22.8°C), and the coolest is Jan at 13°F (-10.6°C). About 840 mm (33 inches) of precipitation falls in a year; Jun is the wettest month (130 mm) and Jan the driest (18 mm). These values come from NASA satellite-based climatology on a grid of about 50 km, so they describe the wider area, not a weather station in the city.

Nearby cities to compare

Closest cities in this guide: Golden Valley (5 miles, rent 30% higher); St. Louis Park (5 miles, rent 20% higher); Robbinsdale (5 miles, rent 28% higher); Columbia Heights (6 miles, rent 6% lower). Rent differences are against Minneapolis; use the Compare tab to put any two cities side by side.

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Where to live

CITY Official statistics Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–2024 5-year (via Census Reporter) · Data: ACS 2020–2024

Places within 50 miles (straight line) of Minneapolis, MN that have a guide, with what living there costs. No pay estimate is shown because the title did not match one occupation.

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Place ⇅	Distance from the job city ⇅	Median rent ⇅	Median home value ⇅	Median household income ⇅	Commute 45+ min ⇅	Rent as % of occupation pay ⇅	Open jobs there ⇅
Minneapolis, MN	0 mi	$1,371	$362,200	$80,846	7.4%	n/a	Jobs
Golden Valley, MN	5 mi	$1,785	$431,400	$108,772	5.0%	n/a	—
St. Louis Park, MN	5 mi	$1,644	$386,800	$101,648	5.2%	n/a	—
Robbinsdale, MN	5 mi	$1,758	$295,600	$88,252	2.2%	n/a	—
Columbia Heights, MN	6 mi	$1,295	$277,600	$73,691	8.8%	n/a	—
Richfield, MN	6 mi	$1,393	$344,000	$85,132	8.4%	n/a	—
Roseville, MN	7 mi	$1,374	$352,100	$86,930	5.5%	n/a	—
Edina, MN	7 mi	$1,844	$646,300	$128,767	4.2%	n/a	—
Crystal, MN	7 mi	$1,467	$296,100	$92,513	5.8%	n/a	—
Hopkins, MN	7 mi	$1,468	$375,600	$75,234	2.2%	n/a	—
Brooklyn Center, MN	8 mi	$1,376	$274,300	$72,535	5.6%	n/a	—
New Hope, MN	8 mi	$1,335	$337,000	$77,662	3.0%	n/a	—
New Brighton, MN	8 mi	$1,397	$364,700	$88,521	4.3%	n/a	—
St. Paul, MN	8 mi	$1,281	$294,500	$73,394	6.2%	n/a	—
Fridley, MN	8 mi	$1,326	$302,900	$77,680	9.8%	n/a	—
Minnetonka, MN	9 mi	$1,779	$475,800	$119,517	3.3%	n/a	—
Bloomington, MN	10 mi	$1,561	$361,700	$93,211	6.6%	n/a	Jobs
West St. Paul, MN	10 mi	$1,282	$301,300	$68,464	6.9%	n/a	—
Plymouth, MN	10 mi	$1,766	$491,200	$136,534	5.2%	n/a	—
Shoreview, MN	10 mi	$1,661	$383,700	$108,370	7.3%	n/a	—

Career paths

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Distances

CITY Calculation (straight line) Source: U.S. Census Bureau Gazetteer (coordinates) · Data: 2024

How far Minneapolis, MN is from the 20 largest US cities, in straight-line miles (not driving distance). Click a column to sort.

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From ⇅	Straight-line distance (miles) ⇅	Population of that city ⇅
Chicago, IL	354 mi	2,711,226
Indianapolis, IN	510 mi	885,860
Columbus, OH	626 mi	914,802
Denver, CO	692 mi	718,877
Oklahoma City, OK	693 mi	697,125
Dallas, TX	861 mi	1,307,930
Fort Worth, TX	869 mi	963,194
Charlotte, NC	939 mi	903,844
Philadelphia, PA	983 mi	1,579,706
New York, NY	1,021 mi	8,483,844
Austin, TX	1,042 mi	979,539
Houston, TX	1,055 mi	2,328,253
San Antonio, TX	1,109 mi	1,479,835
Jacksonville, FL	1,191 mi	977,670
Phoenix, AZ	1,273 mi	1,642,323
Seattle, WA	1,392 mi	754,195
San Diego, CA	1,525 mi	1,389,526
Los Angeles, CA	1,530 mi	3,857,263
San Jose, CA	1,567 mi	990,138
San Francisco, CA	1,612 mi	830,235

Nearby cities with open jobs (within 120 miles)

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City ⇅	Straight-line distance ⇅	Open jobs ⇅
Saint Paul, MN	8 mi	1
Brooklyn Park, MN	11 mi	1

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What is the Senior Database Engineer job at Surescripts?

A senior level role in engineering, construction and energy (manufacturing and hardware engineering) listed 81 days ago. The full description is on this page and on The Muse.

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Median rent in Minneapolis is $1,371 a month and median household income $80,846 (ACS 2020–2024).

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