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infra engineer

turbopuffer
|AI Infrastructure
US / Canada
full-timeR&D

Job Description

turbopuffer is looking for infra engineers who want to ship a hundred databases every day.

what you'll do:

  • make turbopuffer and our 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 our cloud infrastructure
  • automate yourself out of a job

must have:

  • infra engineer
  • you've worked in a systems language (Rust, C++, Java, Go, etc.)
  • you’ve been responsible for standing up non-trivial cloud infrastructure in prod
  • you love shipping things to prod
  • domain expertise
  • you’ve worked extensively with kubernetes, have written a controller or four, and know how to harden a deployment
  • you’ve built and operated distributed systems. you’re familiar with distributed state machines, leases, and crash recovery
  • you’ve shipped non-trivial multi-tenant services
  • typist - you can write well and can explain complex ideas simply
  • human - you build trust and admit what you don’t know

nice to have:

  • an interest in vector and full-text search
  • prior experience with Rust
  • you’re intimately familiar with k8s security (GKE/EKS/AKS)
  • you’re intimately familiar with cloud provider auth/IAM
  • you have experience working in heavily regulated environments

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

About turbopuffer

First seen: September 17, 2026
Last updated: September 22, 2026