turbopuffer is looking for infra engineers who want to ship a hundred databases every day.
what you'll do:
- make turbopuffer and our internal tooling work across multi-tenant environments, customer cloud accounts, and air-gapped environments
- write code to improve database performance and operability
- improve the security posture of the database and our cloud infrastructure
- automate yourself out of a job
must have:
- infra engineer
- you've worked in a systems language (Rust, C++, Java, Go, etc.)
- you’ve been responsible for standing up non-trivial cloud infrastructure in prod
- you love shipping things to prod
- domain expertise
- you’ve worked extensively with kubernetes, have written a controller or four, and know how to harden a deployment
- you’ve built and operated distributed systems. you’re familiar with distributed state machines, leases, and crash recovery
- you’ve shipped non-trivial multi-tenant services
- typist - you can write well and can explain complex ideas simply
- human - you build trust and admit what you don’t know
nice to have:
- an interest in vector and full-text search
- prior experience with Rust
- you’re intimately familiar with k8s security (GKE/EKS/AKS)
- you’re intimately familiar with cloud provider auth/IAM
- you have experience working in heavily regulated environments
tpuf is hardcore & whimsical. we value:
- overstep > understep
- show > tell
- complexity is earned
- showing up as part of our customer’s team
- making stuff easy to react to
