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
Skills Required
- Experience working in a systems programming language such as Rust, C++, Java, or Go
- Experience standing up non-trivial cloud infrastructure in production
- Experience shipping production software
- Extensive experience with Kubernetes
- Experience writing Kubernetes controllers
- Knowledge of Kubernetes deployment hardening
- Experience building and operating distributed systems
- Familiarity with distributed state machines, leases, and crash recovery
- Experience shipping non-trivial multi-tenant services
- Strong written communication and ability to explain complex ideas simply
- Ability to build trust and acknowledge knowledge gaps
- Interest in vector and full-text search
- Prior experience with Rust
- Deep familiarity with Kubernetes security, including GKE, EKS, or AKS
- Deep familiarity with cloud provider authentication and IAM
- Experience working in heavily regulated environments
What We Do
turbopuffer is a serverless search engine that combines vector and full-text search using object storage. It is designed to make large amounts of data searchable for AI applications, offering high scalability, performance, and cost-efficiency by separating compute and storage. It serves as a critical infrastructure layer for companies needing to retrieve context for AI models, handling billions of documents with low latency.
