Staff Engineer, Caching — Scale-first Data Layer (Hybrid)

Capital Rx; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 167,200 - 251,000; Full time

Job summary

Judi Health is building the technology foundation to deliver high-quality care. The Architecture team's Caching group owns the data access layer across the platform, designing eviction, invalidation, and state propagation for a high-volume healthcare domain.

As Staff Engineer in Architecture, you will define consistency contracts, balance performance and correctness, and mentor senior engineers while contributing to 24/7 on-call readiness and cross-team initiatives across New York, Denver, and

Qualifications

• 10+ years in production engineering with a focus on distributed systems.
• Experience operating Redis or Memcached at cloud scale with topology and eviction knowledge.
• Deep understanding of cache consistency and cross-workload validity.
• Ability to define data contracts and balance performance and correctness.
• Strong written and verbal communication; documented architectural guidance.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate caching infrastructure that serves as the data access layer for complex domain models.
• Own cache design lifecycle from eviction to invalidation and operational recovery.
• Define performance and correctness contracts between caching and dependent services.
• Promote caching best practices and reduce anti-patterns across engineering.
• Diagnose and resolve correctness, performance, and stability issues in the caching layer.
• Set the technical bar through design/code reviews and mentorship of engineers.
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation for incident response.

Skills

Distributed systems

Caching infra

Cloud-native

Cross-team leadership

Architectural guidance

Incident response

Tools

Redis

Memcached

AWS

GCP

Valkey

Job description

Judi Health is building the technology foundation to deliver high-quality care. The Architecture team's Caching group owns the data access layer across the platform, designing eviction, invalidation, and state propagation for a high-volume healthcare domain.

As Staff Engineer in Architecture, you will define consistency contracts, balance performance and correctness, and mentor senior engineers while contributing to 24/7 on-call readiness and cross-team initiatives across New York, Denver, and