Judi Health
Staff Software Engineer, Performance
$167K–$251K
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States +5 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jul 15, 2026
- Location
- Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Denver, Colorado, United States
New York, New York, United States
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Denver, Colorado, United States
New York, New York, United States - Experience
- 10+ years of production engineering experience.
About the job
Leads database performance engineering for Judi Health’s platform, diagnosing and remediating PostgreSQL bottlenecks and establishing organization-wide performance standards and tools.
What you'll do
- Diagnose production database performance issues and drive remediation, including architectural and cluster topology changes.
- Build benchmarking and regression-detection systems, and define database latency, throughput, and SLA performance contracts.
- Lead high-risk query and schema reviews, performance incident response, and mentoring of senior engineers.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of production engineering experience, specializing in PostgreSQL performance and transactional systems at scale.
- Deep knowledge of PostgreSQL internals and experience diagnosing and remediating production database performance issues in regulated or correctness-critical environments.
- Experience building database performance benchmarking and regression-detection systems, including CI-integrated performance gates and observability pipelines.
- Experience evaluating and implementing cluster topology changes for high-concurrency transactional workloads.
Nice to have
- Direct experience with Aurora PostgreSQL at scale.
- Experience with connection pooling middleware, asynchronous Python I/O, PostgreSQL horizontal scaling, OLTP/OLAP boundaries, systems programming, or regulated healthcare/claims systems.
Pay
$200,800 — $251,000 USD (base salary); $184,000 — $230,000 USD (base salary); $167,200 — $209,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
PostgreSQL, Aurora PostgreSQL, PgBouncer, PgDog, asyncio, asyncpg, Rust, Go
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