Job Title: database engineer

Company Name: Turbopuffer

Job Details: RemoteFull,Time

Job Url: https://hiring.cafe/viewjob/2jv0b5dz3usw3oel

Job Description: Posted 5mo agodatabase engineer@ TurbopufferView All JobsWebsiteUnited States or CanadaRemoteFull TimeResponsibilities:design pipeline, profile performance, evolve APIsRequirements Summary:Design and optimize search engine components; strong systems programming with Rust/C++/Go; expertise in search internals, storage engines, or distributed systems; Linux proficiency; good communication and problem solving.Technical Tools Mentioned:Rust, C++, Go, Java, Linux, eBPF, perf, strace, gdb
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)work closely with customers to win their workloads and fold learnings back into the productwrite crisp docsmust have:systems engineeringyou've worked extensively in a systems language (Rust, C++, Java, Go, etc.)you think in memory layouts, cache lines, and syscallsyou methodically work through problems until you've found the root causedomain expertise — you're an expert in at least one of the following domainssearch 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, gdbtypist — you can write well and explain complex ideas simplyhuman — you build trust and admit what you don’t knownice to have:multiple years of experience writing Rustyou've maintained or operated serious systems in production, at scaleyou'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)values we live by:overstep > understepcorrectness > simplicity > performancecustomer traces > first principles > hunchesshow > tell