product engineer

Location: US / Canada

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

Responsibilities

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

Requirements

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; You've maintained and iterated on web-based products at scale; You have prior experience with multi-tenant SaaS apps (billing, authentication, authorization); You can write well and explain complex ideas simply; 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