Staff Software Engineer, Streaming
Judi HealthBase Salary
$167k - $251k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate the WAL replication and event-streaming platform supporting cache invalidation, data warehouse synchronization, and CDC consumers.
- Own replication topology, delivery guarantees, performance and correctness contracts, operational recovery, and post-incident reviews.
- Lead the migration from batch-driven warehouse synchronization to a unified WAL-based replication pipeline using an open table format.
- Drive event-driven design adoption through architectural guidance, anti-pattern elimination, and standardized consumption practices.
- Set the technical bar through design reviews, code reviews, mentorship, and cross-team technical leadership.
- Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation and provide operational support and incident response.
Requirements
- 10+ years of production engineering experience specializing in realtime data infrastructure and event-streaming systems.
- Production experience designing and operating WAL-based or log-structured replication systems such as PostgreSQL logical replication, Debezium, Kafka Connect, or equivalent CDC frameworks at scale.
- Deep understanding of ordering guarantees, at-least-once and exactly-once delivery, idempotency, consumer lag management, and failure recovery.
- Experience leading batch-to-streaming migrations and event-driven architecture initiatives across teams.
- Fluency in Rust, Go, or C/C++ for production systems-level, high-throughput, low-latency components.
- Experience leading cross-team technical initiatives through influence and durable architectural documentation.
- Strong written and verbal communication and the ability to operate with ambiguity.
- Strong experience supporting 24/7 production on-call rotations and resolving incidents outside standard business hours.
- Preferred experience with Rust for streaming pipeline components and with Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, or Parquet.
- Preferred experience integrating streaming pipelines with Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery, ClickHouse, or Databricks.
- Preferred familiarity with PostgreSQL WAL internals, Kafka, Kinesis, Redpanda, Pulsar, AWS data infrastructure, and regulated data domains.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement with 3 days in the office in New York City, Denver, or the Charlotte, NC area.
- Participation in a 24/7 on-call rotation.
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About Judi Health
Judi Health is a health technology company delivering benefit administration solutions to employers, unions, health plans, and government entities through three core offerings: - Judi Rx™: transparent, pass-through pharmacy benefit administration for self-insured employers (formerly Capital Rx) - Judi Care™: medical, dental, and vision benefit administration solutions - Judi Cloud™: enterprise licensing of the Judi® for health plans and third-party administrators (TPAs) Together, these solutions run on Judi®, our proprietary technology platform, and replace fragmented systems with Unified Claims Processing™, the industry’s first system to fully consolidate pharmacy, medical, dental, and vision benefit administration on one secure platform. We’re building the electronic infrastructure our nation needs to deliver the healthcare we deserve. To learn more, visit www.judi.health.