Staff Software Engineer, Caching & Architecture (Hybrid)

Judi Health; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 184,000 - 251,000; Full time

Job summary

Judi Health in New York, NY is seeking a Staff Engineer in Architecture to shape the caching strategy across the platform. You will design and operate the data access layer for the claims domain, influence consistency contracts, and drive caching best practices across engineering teams.

This role requires 10+ years in distributed systems, hands-on experience with Redis or Memcached, and strong communication.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in production engineering with distributed systems.
• Experience operating Redis/Memcached at cloud scale.
• Experience multi-tenant caching infrastructure.
• Understanding of cache consistency and invalidation.
• Familiarity with cache replacement algorithms beyond LRU.
• Cloud-native environments with resiliency requirements.
• Proven cross-team technical leadership.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Comfort with ambiguity and end-to-end ownership.
• Experience supporting 24/7 on-call rotations.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate the caching infrastructure that serves as the data access layer for one of the most complex domain models in American healthcare.
• Own the full lifecycle of cache design, from eviction policy and service topology to invalidation architecture and operational recovery.
• Define and own the performance and correctness contracts between the caching layer and the services that depend on it.
• Drive adoption of caching best practices across engineering, eliminating anti-patterns, building shared libraries, and making cache-aware design the default.
• Diagnose and resolve correctness, performance, and stability issues in the caching layer, including leading incident response and post-incident reviews.
• Set the technical bar for the caching team through design review, code review, and direct mentorship of senior engineers.
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation to provide continuous operational support and rapid incident response.

Skills

Distributed systems

Caching

Cloud-native

Cross-team leadership

Tools

Redis

Memcached

Go

Rust

Python

Job description

Judi Health in New York, NY is seeking a Staff Engineer in Architecture to shape the caching strategy across the platform. You will design and operate the data access layer for the claims domain, influence consistency contracts, and drive caching best practices across engineering teams.

This role requires 10+ years in distributed systems, hands-on experience with Redis or Memcached, and strong communication.