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
Skills Required
- Experience leading engineering teams technically and through people management
- Extensive experience with browser technologies including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or TypeScript
- Experience building and maintaining web applications involving databases and APIs
- Passion for user experience and ability to think like a product manager
- Strong user-problem-solving orientation
- Design sense and attention to visual quality
- Experience maintaining and iterating on web-based products at scale
- Prior experience with multi-tenant SaaS applications, including billing, authentication, and authorization
- Ability to write clearly and explain complex ideas simply
- Experience with the React ecosystem, such as shadcn/ui, Next.js, Tailwind, or Vercel
- Experience with backend frameworks such as Rails, Phoenix, or Django
- Interest in vector and full-text search and experience using related tools
- Prior experience with Rust
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.
