database engineer
At turbopuffer · US / Canada
- Engineering
- Full-time
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- Posted
- 30 September 2026
- First seen by us
- 3 November 2026
- Last checked
- 21 hours ago
Job description
From turbopuffer’s job post, as they wrote it.
turbopuffer is looking for database engineers who want to advance the frontier of search.
what you'll do:
* 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)
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* work closely with customers to win their workloads and fold learnings back into the product
* write crisp docs
must have:
* systems engineering
* 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
* domain expertise — 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)
* linux — you're at home in terminals, eBPF/perf, strace, gdb
* typist — you can write well and explain complex ideas simply
* human — you build trust and admit what you don’t know
nice to have:
* 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)
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
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