[Remote] Sr. Data Infrastructure Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Lyric is an AI-first healthcare technology company focused on simplifying the business of care. The Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer will design, build, and scale reliable data platforms that power analytics, machine learning, and business intelligence while ensuring high availability and security of data systems.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable data infrastructure on AWS using technologies such as Aurora PostgreSQL, RDS, S3, and Snowflake
- Implement and operate core data systems across ingestion, transformation, storage, and orchestration layers
- Ensure high levels of reliability, performance, availability, and cost efficiency of data platforms and environments
- Apply and promote best practices in data modeling, observability, infrastructure as code (IaC), and CI/CD automation
- Support and scale distributed data systems (e.g., PostgreSQL/Aurora, Snowflake, Kafka, caching) across environments
- Partner with application, analytics, and AI teams to enable efficient and self-service data access and usage
- Participate in design reviews, contribute to technical standards, and mentor junior engineers
- Troubleshoot production issues and drive continuous improvements in data platform operations
- Support operational excellence by participating in on-call rotations and off-hours incident response when required
Skills
- Minimum of five (5) years of experience in Cloud based Data Infrastructure, Database Engineering, or related roles
- Minimum of five (5) years of hands-on experience with AWS Data Services (Aurora, RDS, S3, IAM, Lambda, Glue, Athena etc.)
- Strong experience with PostgreSQL/Aurora and Snowflake or similar modern data platforms
- Proficiency in SQL and scripting or programming languages (Python, Shell, etc.)
- Hands-on experience using Terraform and GitLab to build and operate CI/CD pipelines for data infrastructure automation
- Demonstrated experience optimizing database performance and operating high-throughput data systems
- Experience with real-time or streaming data platforms (Kafka, Databricks)
- Exposure to data governance, lineage, and compliance frameworks (HIPAA, SOC2)
- Familiarity with analytics workflow using orchestration tools (Airflow, dbt)
- Experience supporting database migrations from Oracle RDS to modern data stores (Aurora PostgreSQL, Snowflake)
- Exposure to OpenSearch, Cassandra, or other distributed data systems
- Familiarity with GCP or Azure in addition to AWS
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams
- Prior experience in healthcare or regulated industries is a plus
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