Staff Software Engineer, Streaming

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About Judi Health

Judi Health is a health technology company providing benefit administration solutions to employers, unions, health plans, and government entities. Judi Health replaces fragmented, outdated systems with the industry's first Unified Claims Processing™ architecture, seamlessly consolidating pharmacy and medical benefit administration on a single, secure platform. By delivering true price transparency, eliminating unnecessary middleman fees, and leveraging advanced AI-powered care delivery, Judi Health helps clients achieve unprecedented operational efficiency and service levels.

At Judi Health, we're deploying the infrastructure our country needs to deliver the healthcare we all deserve. We are the intelligence platform powering benefits plans for millions of Americans and proudly leading the next generation of care. To learn more, visit www.judi.health .

Location : Hybrid 3 days (offices in NYC, Denver, CO and Charlotte, NC area)

Position Summary

Judi Health is building the technology infrastructure our nation needs to deliver the healthcare we deserve. The Architecture organization is responsible for the technical foundation the rest of the company builds: the standards, patterns, and infrastructure that engineering teams use to move fast and build efficiently. The Realtime & Streaming team sits within Architecture's Core Platform function, owning the streaming infrastructure that services and data consumers depend on for timely, correct event delivery.

As a Staff Engineer in Architecture, your influence extends beyond what you ship directly. The standards you set, the patterns you establish, and the decisions you document become the reference point for how event-driven systems are built across the organization .

The platform's consumers , including cache invalidation systems, analytics pipelines, and change-data-capture subscribers , each carry different latency and ordering requirements. You will be directly responsible for scaling delivery without degrading it while honoring per-consumer SLAs as volume grows to keep historical and real-time data in sync.

One of your first major initiatives will be leading the migration of our data warehouse synchronization layer from independently managed, batch-driven processes to a unified WAL-based replication pipeline, using an open table format for transactional data . This spans the full synchronization path from PostgreSQL to the downstream data warehouses used for analytics leveraging native streaming and ingestion capabilities to support realtime synchronization.

Position Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate the WAL replication and event streaming platform that cache invalidation, data warehouse synchronization, and change-data-capture consumers across the platform depend on for correctness and low latency
• Own the full lifecycle of the streaming platform, from replication topology and delivery guarantee design through operational recovery and post-inciden

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DataBricks — including schema evolution, backfill strategies, and latency and cost trade-offs

• Deep familiarity with PostgreSQL WAL internals, including logical decoding, replication slots, checkpointing, and the failure modes that emerge at scale
• Familiarity with the streaming runtime landscape — Kafka, Kinesis, Redpanda , Pulsar, and similar — and the ability to evaluate trade-offs across managed and self-managed deployment models
• Experience with AWS data infrastructure and how managed services compose with self-managed streaming components in a hybrid architecture
• Background in healthcare, pharmacy, financial services, or other regulated domains where data pipelines carry audit and correctness obligations

Nothing in this position description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.
New York, NY Salary Range
$218,000 — $272,500 USD

Denver, CO Salary Range
$199,500 — $249,500 USD

Charlotte, NC Salary Range
$181,500 — $227,000 USD

All employees are responsible for adherence to the Judi Health Code of Conduct including the reporting of non-compliance. This position description is designed to be flexible, allowing management the opportunity to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities as needed to best meet organizational goals.

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