Turquoise Health
Senior Software Engineer, Performance
$172K–$195K
Remote · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 22, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years building and optimizing production data systems, data-intensive applications, or analytical products.
- Visa sponsorship
- Requires current authorization to work in the United States; does not sponsor employment visas or assume sponsorship of existing visas.
About the job
Improve the speed, scalability, and cost-efficiency of Turquoise Health’s data-powered Analyze and Search products by measuring performance issues and shipping data, API, and product changes.
What you'll do
- Investigate performance issues across the product and data stack, measure root causes, and deliver production fixes.
- Build benchmarks and monitor latency, throughput, resource use, and regressions, including assessing dataset changes before launch.
- Design and ship data architecture and product behavior improvements with Product, frontend, and backend engineers.
What they ask for
- Advanced SQL and strong Python or another general-purpose language.
- Hands-on experience optimizing analytical workloads in column-oriented databases or data warehouses.
- Hypothesis-driven performance work using query plans, profiling, benchmarks, and production telemetry.
- Ability to reason across databases, APIs, backend services, client request patterns, and product interactions.
Nice to have
- Experience with ClickHouse.
- Experience with data-heavy search, filtering, analytics, or reporting products, or healthcare-specific data.
Pay
$172K – $195K USD base salary
Tools
SQL, Python, ClickHouse Cloud, ClickHouse
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