product engineer

Department: R&D

Location: US / Canada

Employment Type: FullTime

turbopuffer is looking for product engineers who want to advance the frontier of search. we're doubling down on our developer experience this year and looking to ship a host of highly requested features and improvements (playgrounds, observability, alerting, insights, billing).

what you'll do:

• design and implement end-to-end improvements to our overall developer experience from the UX (dashboard, docs, site, SDKs) to our core database.

• help customers understand, monitor, and optimize their tpuf workloads.

• write crisp docs

must have:

• product engineering

  • you've worked extensively with browser technologies (HTML/CSS/JS/TS) and web apps in general (databases, APIs)

  • you are passionate about UX and can think like a product manager

  • you are driven by solving user problems

  • you have an eye for design

• domain expertise

  • you’ve maintained and iterated on web-based products at scale

  • you have prior experience with multi-tenant SaaS apps (billing, authentication, authorization)

• typist — you can write well and explain complex ideas simply

• human — you build trust and admit what you don’t know

nice to have:

• experience in the React ecosystem (shadcn/ui, Next.js, Tailwind, Vercel) and/or backend frameworks (Rails, Phoenix, Django)

• an interest in vector and full-text search and experience interacting with tools in the space

• prior experience with Rust

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