Senior Performance Engineer, Data Products
Turquoise · Remote · Remote ·
COMPENSATION
$172k – $195k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Senior level role
- Fully remote (US)
- ClickHouse & SQL
- No visa sponsorship
- Equity options included
Join the Data Products team to enhance how applications interact with complex healthcare data. You will drive product experience outcomes by iterating on the Data Platform, ensuring faster and more scalable performance across the full system.
What you'll do
- Investigate performance issues from slow queries to root causes
- Design and evaluate changes to data architecture
- Partner with engineers to adapt product behavior via caching or batching
- Develop benchmarks for key filters, datasets, and workflows
- Measure latency, throughput, and infrastructure consumption
- Evaluate performance impact of upstream dataset changes pre-launch
- Prototype solutions and validate tradeoffs in production
- Improve monitoring and regression detection for data products
What you'll need
- 5+ years optimizing production data systems or analytical products
- Advanced SQL skills and proficiency in Python or similar language
- Experience optimizing workloads in column-oriented databases
- Proven ability to restructure data storage for performance gains
- Skilled in using query plans and telemetry for diagnostics
- Ability to reason across database, API, and client boundaries
- Hypothesis-driven approach to defining and solving problems
- Product judgment to balance technical and UX improvements
Nice to have
- Direct experience with ClickHouse
- Background in search, filtering, or analytics products
- Familiarity with healthcare data types like claims or billing
Stack
- SQL
- Python
- ClickHouse Cloud
How you'll work
- Fully remote within the United States
- Operates on US business hours
- Flexible working hours
- US work authorization required
- No visa sponsorship available
What you get
- Competitive salary with equity options
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
- Unlimited paid time off
- 401(k) retirement plan with 4% matching
- $750 budget for home office setup
- Paid biannual in-person company summits
- Quarterly stipend for coworker meetups
- Monthly health and wellness benefit
- Generous paid family leave
- Annual learning and development stipend