infra engineer
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turbopuffer
US
Summary
You will build and maintain multi-tenant cloud infrastructure and internal tooling to support high-scale database operations. Additionally, you will focus on improving database performance, security, and automating infrastructure management.
Job Description
turbopuffer is looking for infra engineers who want to ship a hundred databases every day.
what you'll do:
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make turbopuffer and our internal tooling work across multi-tenant environments, customer cloud accounts, and air-gapped environments
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write code to improve database performance and operability
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improve the security posture of the database and our cloud infrastructure
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automate yourself out of a job
must have:
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infra engineer
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you've worked in a systems language (Rust, C++, Java, Go, etc.)
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you’ve been responsible for standing up non-trivial cloud infrastructure in prod
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you love shipping things to prod
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domain expertise
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you’ve worked extensively with kubernetes, have written a controller or four, and know how to harden a deployment
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you’ve built and operated distributed systems. you’re familiar with distributed state machines, leases, and crash recovery
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you’ve shipped non-trivial multi-tenant services
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typist - you can write well and can explain complex ideas simply
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human - you build trust and admit what you don’t know
nice to have:
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an interest in vector and full-text search
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prior experience with Rust
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you’re intimately familiar with k8s security (GKE/EKS/AKS)
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you’re intimately familiar with cloud provider auth/IAM
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you have experience working in heavily regulated environments
tpuf is hardcore & whimsical. we value:
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overstep > understep
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show > tell
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complexity is earned
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showing up as part of our customer’s team
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making stuff easy to react to
turbopuffer is a fast search engine that combines vector and full-text search using object storage, making all your data easily searchable.
Using only object storage for state and NVMe SSD with memory cache for compute, turbopuffer scales horizontally to handle billions of documents.
The system caches only actively searched data while keeping the rest in low-cost object storage, offering competitive pricing. Cold queries process 1 million vectors in 500ms (p90), while warm queries take just 20ms (p50). This architecture means it's as fast as in-memory search engines when cached, but far cheaper to run.
Storing data in cache and object storage costs less than traditional replicated disk systems, even for frequently accessed data.
Founded
2023
Company size
11-50 employees
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Org type
Privately Held
turbopuffer is a fast search engine that combines vector and full-text search using object storage, making all your data easily searchable.
Using only object storage for state and NVMe SSD with memory cache for compute, turbopuffer scales horizontally to handle billions of documents.
The system caches only actively searched data while keeping the rest in low-cost object storage, offering competitive pricing. Cold queries process 1 million vectors in 500ms (p90), while warm queries take just 20ms (p50). This architecture means it's as fast as in-memory search engines when cached, but far cheaper to run.
Storing data in cache and object storage costs less than traditional replicated disk systems, even for frequently accessed data.
Founded
2023
Company size
11-50 employees
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Org type
Privately Held