turbopuffer

turbopuffer

database engineer

US / Canada

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 303 days ago
JavaGoC++ReactDistributed SystemsData StructuresKubernetesLinuxSystems EngineeringResearch

About the role

  • turbopuffer is looking for database engineers who want to advance the frontier of search.
  • - design and implement improvements across one or more layers of our search engine (storage, indexing, querying)

Responsibilities

  • design and implement improvements across one or more layers of our search engine (storage, indexing, querying)
  • human - you build trust and admit what you don't know

Requirements

  • domain expertise - you're an expert in at least one of the following domains
  • typist - you can write well and explain complex ideas simply

Nice to have

  • multiple years of experience writing Rust
  • you've maintained or operated serious systems in production, at scale
  • you've made interesting contributions to the databases, IR, or systems communities (e.g., research, open source, speaking)
  • additional domain expertise in:
  • k8s and cloud infra (GKE/EKS/AKS, disks and networking, load balancers, observability)
  • security (multi-tenant systems, isolation, sandboxing)
  • overstep > understep
  • complexity is earned

Skills

  • turbopuffer is looking for database engineers who want to advance the frontier of search.

Company info

  • work closely with customers to win their workloads and fold learnings back into the product

This listing is sourced directly from turbopuffer's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.