Database Engineer

🕒 March 28

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turbopuffer

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1 - 10 employees

☁️ SaaS

🔌 API

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

SaaS • API • Artificial Intelligence

<turbopuffer> is a serverless vector and full-text search platform built from first principles on object storage (S3). It provides an API-driven, cache-backed search service optimized for embeddings and LLM use cases, claiming high throughput, low latency, and much lower cost than traditional vector databases. turbopuffer targets developer and enterprise customers with features like conditional writes, large-scale document capacity, and compliance certifications (SOC2 Type 2, HIPAA).

📋 Description

• design and implement improvements across one or more layers of our search engine (storage, indexing, querying) • intensive performance hacking: tracing, CPU/heap profiling, optimizing data structures, using SIMD, tuning IO pipelines, etc. • evolve our search primitives and APIs (full text + vector + reranking) • work closely with customers to win their workloads and fold learnings back into the product • write crisp docs

🎯 Requirements

• you've worked extensively in a systems language (Rust, C++, Java, Go, etc.) • you think in memory layouts, cache lines, and syscalls • you methodically work through problems until you've found the root cause • you're an expert in at least one of the following domains • search internals (e.g., inverted indexes, ANN indexes, rerankers) • storage engines (e.g., LSMs, WALs, MVCC, compaction, GC) • distributed systems (e.g., replication, leases, fault injection, simulation/chaos testing) • you're at home in terminals, eBPF/perf, strace, gdb • you can write well and explain complex ideas simply • you build trust and admit what you don’t know • multiple years of experience writing Rust • you've maintained or operated serious systems in production, at scale • you've made interesting contributions to the databases, IR, or systems communities (e.g., research, open source, speaking) • additional domain expertise in: k8s and cloud infra (GKE/EKS/AKS, disks and networking, load balancers, observability) • security (multi-tenant systems, isolation, sandboxing)

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Retirement plans