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
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