172K–195K USD / year
Senior Performance Engineer, Data Products
DataRemote — United States
Published on 2026-07-31
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About this role
Improve the performance and scalability of data-powered healthcare products. Investigate production bottlenecks and deliver measurable improvements across data architecture, query execution, APIs, and product workflows.
About the company
Turquoise Health is a healthcare price and contract transparency platform that helps payers, providers, and employers understand costs and improve how care gets paid.
Stack
SQLPythonClickHouse Cloud
What you'll do
- Investigate performance issues across the product and data stack and deliver production improvements.
- Design and evaluate data architecture changes and benchmark representative workloads.
- Measure query latency, throughput, concurrency, and infrastructure consumption.
- Partner with Product and engineering teams to optimize request patterns and user experience.
- Assess dataset and product changes for likely performance impacts.
- Improve instrumentation, monitoring, and performance regression detection.
What we're looking for
- 5+ years building and optimizing production data systems, data-intensive applications, or analytical products.
- Advanced SQL and proficiency in Python or another general-purpose language.
- Experience optimizing analytical workloads in column-oriented databases or data warehouses.
- Experience using query plans, profiling, benchmarks, and production telemetry to diagnose performance issues.
- Ability to reason across databases, APIs, backend services, client requests, and product interactions.
- A hypothesis-driven approach that quantifies performance improvements and connects technical work to user or business outcomes.
Nice to have
- Experience with ClickHouse.
- Experience with data-heavy search, filtering, analytics, or reporting products.
- Experience with healthcare claims, contract rates, revenue cycle, medical billing, or healthcare pricing data.
Benefits
- Equity options.
- Unlimited PTO.
- 401(k) with 4% matching.
- Fully remote work and flexible working hours.
- $750 work-from-home setup budget.
- Paid biannual company summits.
- Monthly $100 health and wellness benefit.
- Annual $1,200 learning and development stipend.