Senior Performance Engineer, Data Products
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
Responsibilities
Own performance investigations across the product and data stack, moving from slow queries or poor user exper
