infrastructure engineer

turbopuffer

58d

About The Position

Turbopuffer is looking for infra engineers who want to ship a hundred databases every day. This role involves making Turbopuffer and its internal tooling work across multi-tenant environments, customer cloud accounts, and air-gapped environments. The engineer will write code to improve database performance and operability, enhance the security posture of the database and cloud infrastructure, and automate processes.

Requirements

• Worked in a systems language (Rust, C++, Java, Go, etc.).
• Been responsible for standing up non-trivial cloud infrastructure in prod.
• Love shipping things to prod.
• Domain expertise.
• Worked extensively with Kubernetes, have written a controller or four, 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.
• Can write well and can explain complex ideas simply.
• Build trust and admit what you don’t know.

Nice To Haves

• An interest in vector and full-text search.
• Prior experience with Rust.
• Intimately familiar with k8s security (GKE/EKS/AKS).
• Intimately familiar with cloud provider auth/IAM.
• Experience working in heavily regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Make Turbopuffer and 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 cloud infrastructure.
• Automate processes.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed