Location: US / Canada
turbopuffer is looking for an engineer to lead the team that is building all of our user facing features. we're doubling down on our customer experience and looking to ship a host of highly requested features and improvements (playgrounds, observability, alerting, insights, billing).
what you'll do:
- design and implement end-to-end improvements to our overall developer experience from the UX (dashboard, docs, site, SDKs) to our core database.
- help customers understand, monitor, and optimize their tpuf workloads.
- manage a team of (currently) 3 and support in the hiring and building of this team
- write crisp docs
must have:
- product engineering
- you have lead engineering teams (technically and people management)
- you've worked extensively with browser technologies (HTML/CSS/JS/TS) and web apps in general (databases, APIs)
- you are passionate about UX and can think like a product manager
- you are driven by solving user problems
- you have an eye for design
- domain expertise
- you’ve maintained and iterated on web-based products at scale
- you have prior experience with multi-tenant SaaS apps (billing, authentication, authorization)
- typist — you can write well and explain complex ideas simply
- human — you build trust and admit what you don’t know
nice to have:
- experience in the React ecosystem (shadcn/ui, Next.js, Tailwind, Vercel) and/or backend frameworks (Rails, Phoenix, Django)
- an interest in vector and full-text search and experience interacting with tools in the space
- prior experience with Rust
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
Location: Anywhere
Workplace: Remote
turbopuffer is looking for someone to lead and develop our deployed engineering function. DEs are the technical champions for our customers. They own the technical outcome of the sales cycle, and serve as the go-to technical partner as our customers explore scale, expansion, and renewals. Their work spans demos, POCs, benchmarks, firefighting, and whatever it takes to make our customers successful.
what you'll do:
- lead and develop the DE team, as a player-coach
- work closely with your peers in GTM to develop and refine the technical sales motion
- act as a bridge between GTM and engineering teams, and as a voice of the customer
- own the technical relationship end-to-end, from discovery, to expansion and renewal
- spend time in-person visiting prospects and customers as a key part of the relationship
- build concrete benchmarks, demos and POCs instead of slides, drive evaluations, guide implementations
- treat customer problems as your own and don't rest until they're solved
- live in customer slack channels, helping to solve problems and architect solutions
- say no when we're not the right fit and always have a growth mindset
must have:
- leadership exp - guiding the team is second nature. you constantly think about best practices, and document your work so others can learn from it.
- ai-first - you are obviously agent pilled and understand how it unlocks another level to what we can provide
- commercial - we unlock product ambition by reducing cost & reducing operational burden
- sales x technical - you expertly balance the sales cycle with deep technical domain expertise
- data or database background - you love looking at explain plans and optimizing schemas
- linux - you're comfortable in terminals and reading logs
- python or javascript/typescript - for building solutions and demos
- typist - you can write well and can explain complex ideas simply
- human - you build trust and know when you're in over your head
nice to have:
- vector search or full-text search background
- k8s and cloud platform experience
- performance benchmarking experience
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
Location: US / Canada
Workplace: Remote
turbopuffer is looking for database engineers who want to advance the frontier of search.
what you'll do:
- design and implement improvements across one or more layers of our search engine (storage, indexing, querying)
- intensive performance hacking: tracing, CPU/heap profiling, optimizing data structures, using SIMD, tuning IO pipelines, etc.
- evolve our search primitives and APIs (full text + vector + reranking)
- work closely with customers to win their workloads and fold learnings back into the product
- write crisp docs
must have:
- systems engineering
- you've worked extensively in a systems language (Rust, C++, Java, Go, etc.)
- you think in memory layouts, cache lines, and syscalls
- you methodically work through problems until you've found the root cause
- domain expertise — you're an expert in at least one of the following domains
- search internals (e.g., inverted indexes, ANN indexes, rerankers)
- storage engines (e.g., LSMs, WALs, MVCC, compaction, GC)
- distributed systems (e.g., replication, leases, fault injection, simulation/chaos testing)
- linux — you're at home in terminals, eBPF/perf, strace, gdb
- typist — you can write well and explain complex ideas simply
- human — you build trust and admit what you don’t know
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)
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
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Location: Canada / US / Europe
Workplace: Remote
turbopuffer needs someone who can close deals with engineers. Our customers are technical teams already building in a fast market. Your job is help our customers win.
we’re open to two types of people:
- AE who actually understands what they’re selling
- technical person ready to carry a quota
what you’ll do:
- live in customer slack channels, helping to solve problems, drive deals forward
- close inbound deals
- manage POCs and work closely with solutions engineers
- answer questions honestly, say no when it’s not a fit
- navigate and improve internal systems
must have:
- technical – you can read API docs without crying
- systematic – you track your pipeline and follow through
- human – you don’t lie to customers
- urgent – you move fast because our customers do
- independent – you get things done without being explicitly told
- typist - you can write well and can explain complex ideas simply
- scientist - be open to experimentation and learn from your failures
nice to have:
- you’ve sold to developers before and know why they hate salespeople
- experience with databases, search, or infra software
- experience with GTM automation tools like Clay, n8n etc.
- comfort with python/javascript, linux, or cloud platforms
values we live by:
- overstep > understep
- correctness > simplicity > performance
- customer traces > first principles > hunches
- show > tell
Location: North America
Workplace: Remote
turbopuffer is looking for someone to build our partner program from scratch — the strategy, the integrations, and the first real revenue through it.
what you'll do:
- decide which partnerships are worth it — which CSPs, peers, SIs, and labs to pursue, and which to ignore
- own the relationship with cloud providers (GCP, AWS, Azure) and drive our marketplace listings from setup to real pipeline
- turn partnerships into a repeatable sales motion: co-selling, marketplace transactions, joint accounts
- get turbopuffer into the implementations that systems integrators are already running
- structure the deals and co-sell motions, and negotiate them with partner alliance teams
- work closely with engineering to fold partner needs back into the product
must have:
- technical — you're comfortable discussing APIs and cloud infra
- outcome-driven — you know a partnership only matters if it drives revenue, and you build toward that from day one
- owner — you can set partner strategy and structure deals, not just execute someone else's plan
- marketplace-minded — you understand CSP marketplaces as a sales channel, not just a listing
- independent — meetings aren't the goal. you navigate a large partner org, find the right people, and drive things to signed integrations and real revenue — no spec, no warm intro required
- typist — you can write well and explain complex ideas simply
- human — you build trust across companies and know when you're in over your head
nice to have:
- experience standing up technical partnerships, cloud alliances, or marketplace GTM at an infrastructure or developer-tool company
- hands-on experience with GCP, AWS, or Azure marketplaces (private offers, metering, co-sell programs)
- vector search, full-text search, or data infrastructure background
- comfort building demos, integrations, or lightweight tooling yourself
- you've closed co-sell deals without becoming the person who blames the partner when they slip
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
Location: US / Canada
Workplace: Remote
turbopuffer is looking for an engineer to help our customers succeed. While every day is different; (from digging into unfamiliar systems and debugging, to writing code when that's what it takes), you'll see each issue through to its end.
what you'll do:
- debug customer issues, optimize queries
- write examples for our docs
- write code to solve customer problems, ship PRs, and build automations
- live in customer slack channels, helping to solve problems from first report to resolution
- own customer outcomes
must have:
- typist - you can write well and can explain complex ideas simply
- linux - you're comfortable in terminals and reading logs
- python or javascript/typescript - for reproducing issues and building solutions
- human - you build trust and keep things productive when everything's on fire
- systematic - you methodically work through problems until you've found the root cause
nice to have:
- k8s experience
- vector search or full-text search background
- experience with the major cloud platforms
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