Staff Database Reliability Engineer, Ro
$202-243k
+ Equity
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Telehealth primary care platform
Posted today
Telehealth primary care platform
501-1000 employees
Posted today
$202-243k
+ Equity
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help patients achieve health goals by delivering the most convenient and effective care possible.
Role
Who you are
- Strong experience with Postgres
- Strong scripting and automation skills in Python, Go, or Bash
- Proficiency in performance tuning, query optimization, and indexing strategies
- Hands-on experience with IaC (e.g. Terraform, Pulumi)
- Solid understanding of AWS cloud services, with specific expertise in and experience with RDS
- Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools (e.g. Datadog, Splunk)
- Understanding of high availability, clustering, and disaster recovery strategies
- Experience implementing database backup, restore, and replication strategies
- Knowledge of CI/CD workflows and database change management
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced, privacy- and security-focused environment
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) with strong Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) skills to join our team
- This role will focus on ensuring the performance, scalability, availability, and reliability of our database systems while driving automation, observability, and operational excellence
- You will collaborate closely with SREs, software engineers, and security teams to enhance database reliability through best practices and innovative solutions
- Design, implement, and maintain highly available, scalable, and resilient database systems
- Develop and apply SRE principles to database operations, including monitoring, observability, incident response, and automation
- Optimize database performance and query tuning to improve efficiency and reduce latency
- Automate database provisioning, backups, and schema changes using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools
- Ensure effective database replication, clustering, failover mechanisms, and disaster recovery strategies
- Establish and enforce database security best practices, including access control and encryption
- Collaborate with software engineers to design database schemas and indexing strategies that align with application needs
- Drive database infrastructure improvements using CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment strategies
- Participate and manage on-call rotations and provide expert guidance during incidents and post-mortems
- Stay current with emerging database technologies, best practices, and industry trends
Our take
Ro is a healthcare startup that connects patients directly to physicians, nurses, and pharmacists. The founders of Ro established the company because they felt that health insurance wasn’t working as it should, as the pooled cost of expensive treatments means that the price of individual doctor visits is inflated.
Ro’s primary care platform powers a personalized, end-to-end healthcare experience from diagnosis, to delivery of medication, to ongoing care. Instead of having to travel to a doctor’s office, Ro customers can access a video conference with a physician on-demand, from the comfort of their own home.
In order to tap into the global medical market, which is worth over $4 trillion, Ro raised $150 million at a valuation of $7 billion in 2022. It has expanded to more health areas, such as skincare and mental health, and launched an online pharmacy. Despite this, a substantial number of layoffs in spring 2022 indicated that Ro's accelerated growth had caused problems with its internal organization. Having now narrowed its focus and spending more on less, Ro has streamlined its operations and looks to continue on a steady upward trajectory.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Feb 2022
$150m
LATE VC
Mar 2021
$500m
SERIES D
Total funding: $1.0bn
Company benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision membership
- Equity for all team members
- Flexible time off
- Paid parental leave, and flexible work arrangement
- Well-stocked office with snacks and bi-weekly free lunches
- Gym, learning, and development stipends
Company values
- Fight for patients: Always start with what patients want. Your curiosity drives you to understand their motivation and the goals they are trying to achieve. Work backwards from there. Fight for the healthcare they deserve and move mountains to make it happen
- Think big: Challenge the status quo. You're here to revolutionize healthcare for patients. Dream big. Come up with bad meeting ideas. We love them. Let's invent together
- Inch by inch: Improve every day - yourself, your team and your work. Constantly raise the bar. Focus on the inputs of the patient experience and, over a long enough time horizon, those small improvements compound and you will change the world
Company HQ
Chelsea, New York, NY
Articles
Leadership
Zachariah Reitano
(Co-Founder)Previously a Teacher at General Assembly and co-founder of Shout Inc., in 2013. They are now an Entrepreneur in Residence at Prehype.
Saman Rahmanian
(Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer)Previously a Senior Art Director at Crispin Porter + Bogusky and founder of Tischen in 2010. They were also a Partner at Prehype and founder of Managed by Q.
Rob Schutz
(Co-Founder & Board Member)Founder of Snagged.com. Experienced as a Senior Consultant at CGI specializing in healthcare, they also served as Director of US Marketing and USer Acqusition at kgb and as VP of Growth at BARK.
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