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Infrastructure Engineer - Turbopuffer

Fully remoteFull-timeSeniorUTC-8–-4Americas#Rust#Kubernetes#distributed-systems

turbopuffer is looking for infrastructure 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

Requirements

Infrastructure Engineering

  • Worked in a systems language (Rust, C++, Java, Go, etc.)
  • Responsible for standing up non-trivial cloud infrastructure in production
  • Love shipping things to production

Domain Expertise

  • Extensive experience with Kubernetes, written controllers, and know how to harden a deployment
  • Built and operated distributed systems; familiar with distributed state machines, leases, and crash recovery
  • Shipped non-trivial multi-tenant services

Core Traits

  • Typist: You can write well and 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
  • Intimately familiar with Kubernetes security (GKE/EKS/AKS)
  • Intimately familiar with cloud provider auth/IAM
  • Experience working in heavily regulated environments

Values

tbup 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

Timezone overlap

UTC-8–-4

Open to

NA

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