deployed engineer

turbopuffer is looking for someone to be a technical champion for our customers - demos, POCs, firefighting, whatever it takes to make them successful.

what you'll do

• build concrete demos and POCs instead of slides
• jump on calls to answer the hard questions and unblock deals
• own the technical relationship end-to-end. drive evaluations, guide implementations
• treat customer problems as your own and don't rest until they're solved
• live in customer slack channels, helping to solve problems and architect solutions
• say no when we're not the right fit and always have a growth mindset
• work closely with engineering to drive product roadmap for customers
• update documentation whenever you see an issue or something isn’t clear

must have

• commercial - you sell painkillers, not vitamins
• data background - you love looking at explain plans and optimizing schemas
• linux - you're comfortable in terminals and reading logs
• python or javascript/typescript - for building solutions and demos
• typist - you can write well and can explain complex ideas simply
• human - you build trust and know when you're in over your head

nice to have

• vector search or full-text search background
• k8s and cloud platform experience
• performance benchmarking experience

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