Staff Platform Engineer - PostgreSQL Performance (Hybrid)

Judi Health; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 184,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Judi Health is seeking a Staff Engineer in Architecture to advance the performance of our PostgreSQL-based platform. You will shape standards, patterns, and infrastructure primitives that enable engineering teams to move fast while maintaining correctness under heavy load.

Primary focus includes diagnosing and solving production database issues, migrating toward asynchronous I/O, building benchmarking frameworks, and defining performance contracts for the database layer.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of production engineering experience with PostgreSQL at scale.
• Deep fluency in PostgreSQL internals and transaction patterns.
• Experience designing benchmarking and CI-integrated performance gates.
• Experience with cluster topology changes and parameter tuning for high concurrency.

Responsibilities

• Diagnose production performance problems and own remediation from root cause to production.

Skills

PostgreSQL performance tuning

PostgreSQL internals

Query optimization

CI/CD performance gates

Database benchmarking

On-call production support

Architecture influence

Tools

Aurora PostgreSQL

PgBouncer

PgDog

Job description

Judi Health is seeking a Staff Engineer in Architecture to advance the performance of our PostgreSQL-based platform. You will shape standards, patterns, and infrastructure primitives that enable engineering teams to move fast while maintaining correctness under heavy load.

Primary focus includes diagnosing and solving production database issues, migrating toward asynchronous I/O, building benchmarking frameworks, and defining performance contracts for the database layer.