Database Engineer
Location
United States
Posted
69 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Database Engineer
turbopuffer
• 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
Job 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
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