infra engineer

Department: R&D

Location: US / Canada

Employment Type: FullTime

turbopuffer is looking for infra engineers who want to ship a hundred databases every day.

what youll 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

  • youve 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