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infra engineer

turbopuffer· R&D
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US / CanadaFull-timePosted 5d ago

About the role

Infra engineers at turbopuffer work to make the platform and internal tooling run across multi-tenant environments, customer cloud accounts, and air-gapped environments, aiming to ship a hundred databases every day.

Responsibilities

  • 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

Qualifications

  • 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

Skills

Required:systems programmingcloud infrastructureKubernetes / container orchestrationdistributed systemsmulti-tenant servicescommunicationtrust-building
Last updated Sep 17, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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serverless search engine built on object storage

serverless vector and full-text search built on object storage: fast, 10x cheaper, and extremely scalable

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