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Senior Performance Engineer, Data Products

Turquoise Health · Remote · Remote

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About Turquoise Health

Price with precision. Negotiate with confidence. Turquoise is the platform 300+ healthcare organizations use to make sense of rates, contracts, and compliance. Backed by Bessemer and a16z.

About the role

Own performance investigations across the product and data stack, moving from slow queries or poor user experiences to measurable root causes and production improvements Partner with Product, frontend, and backend engineers to adapt product behavior to the characteristics of the underlying data through techniques such as request batching, debouncing, caching, pagination…

More about this role

This is a fully remote role within the United States.

We’re looking for a product-minded Senior Performance Engineer to improve how our products interact with large, complex healthcare datasets. This role uses Data Science skills to drive Product Experience outcomes, by iterating to improve the performance of our Data Platform.

The work is analytical, and the outcome is practical: a faster, more scalable product. You’ll investigate existing performance problems, anticipate the impact of future product and dataset changes, shipping improvements across the full system—from data architecture and query execution to API request patterns and user experience.

Success in this role means being able to demonstrate outcomes such as:

A critical filter and data-source combination is now x% faster in production

An incoming dataset change is expected to increase latency by y%, and we have a mitigation plan before launch

A product workflow now uses z% fewer ClickHouse resources without compromising the user experience

Own performance investigations across the product and data stack, moving from slow queries or poor user experiences to measurable root causes and production improvements

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