Infrastructure engineer

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