product engineer

turbopuffer is looking for product engineers who want to advance the frontier of search.

what you'll do:

• design and implement improvements to our overall developer experience (dashboard, docs, site, SDKs)

• work closely with customers to give them the tools to get up and running with and get the most out of turbopuffer (playgrounds, obervability, alerting, insights, billing, RBAC)

• write crisp docs

must have:

• product engineering

  • you've worked extensively with browser technologies (HTML/CSS/JS) 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

• 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, 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

values we live by:

• overstep > understep

• correctness > simplicity > performance

• customer traces > first principles > hunches

• show > tell