Principal Software Engineer, DAAS

Job description

Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all. Role summary: We are looking for a Principal Engineer who would work on transforming the way athenahealth delivers and operates database services by designing scalable, resilient platform capabilities for Managed PostgreSQL. This Principal Member of Technical Staff will provide senior technical leadership across platform architecture, engineering practices, and operational excellence. This is a hybrid role based in Boston, MA and reports to an Engineering Manager in the Data as a Service team. Team summary: The Managed Postgres Service team provides tools and integrations that enable athenahealth engineering teams to build features backed by PostgreSQL without needing to reinvent core database platform capabilities. The team drives the architectural evolution of the Managed PostgreSQL platform with a mission to abstract database complexity and deliver a Golden Path—a standardized, reusable set of patterns and automation that hundreds of services can adopt safely and efficiently. This platform includes the design, development, and deployment of foundational l...