Staff Application Database Architect
Heartflow · San Francisco, California
Posted 19 days ago · $190,000 to $250,000
or apply directly on Heartflow's site. We never take the application ourselves.
Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 19 days Heartflow's roles stay open a median of 35 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- Yes 65% of Heartflow's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Heartflow
- moderate 19 stale, 1 reposted of 63 open
- Hiring momentum
- 120 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Heartflow's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Heartflow.
About this role
As a Staff Application Database Architect at Heartflow, you will be responsible for designing and optimizing OLTP database systems that support clinical and operational applications. Your role will involve writing high-performance queries, managing data access strategies for Python/Django services, and ensuring database performance and compliance with healthcare regulations. Additionally, you will lead data modeling efforts and may contribute to analytics and AI-related projects.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 5/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Heartflow as an employer.
What you need
- Deep, hands-on expertise in relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Aurora, or equivalent)
- Strong experience building backend data layers for web applications and services in Python
- Expert-level fluency in SQLAlchemy and/or the Django ORM
- Expert-level conceptual, logical, and physical modeling for transactional/OLTP workloads
- Performance tuning, partitioning, indexing strategy, replication, HA/DR for production relational databases
- Building data systems in AWS with a strong grasp of cost, security, and reliability
Nice to have
- Familiarity with Data Lake or lakehouse concepts
- Exposure to metadata, schema registries, ontologies, or semantic layers for AI
What you get
- Base salary compensation range of $190,000 to $250,000, plus bonus and equity
Worth weighing
- No specific mention of remote work flexibility, although the position is labeled as #LI-Hybrid
- The role involves hands-on work, which may not suit those looking for purely strategic positions
- The job requires compliance with strict healthcare regulations, which may add complexity to the role
Summarised from Heartflow's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Heartflow on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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