Database Engineer

Job summary

Design and implement improvements across the search engine's storage, indexing, and querying layers. Collaborate with customers to address their specific workloads and integrate these insights back into the product.

Job details

turbopuffer is looking for database engineers who want to advance the frontier of search. what you'll do: 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 must have: systems engineering 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 domain expertise — 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) linux — you're at home in terminals, eBPF/perf, strace, gdb typist — you can write well and explain complex ideas simply human — you build trust and admit what you don’t know nice to have: 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) 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

What you’ll do

Design and implement improvements across the search engine's storage, indexing, and querying layers. Collaborate with customers to address their specific workloads and integrate these insights back into the product.

Requirements

Requires extensive experience in systems programming languages and a deep understanding of memory layouts and system internals. Candidates must possess domain expertise in search internals, storage engines, or distributed systems.

Listed skills

• Go · Preferred
• Rust · Preferred
• Linux · Preferred
• Java · Preferred
• C++ · Preferred

Other relevant skills

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• Systems Engineering
• Rust
• C++
• Java
• Go
• Search Internals
• Storage Engines
• Distributed Systems
• Linux
• eBPF
• Performance Profiling
• SIMD
• IO Pipelines
• Memory Management
• Debugging
• Technical Writing
• Building Trust
• Observability
• Go (Programming Language)
• Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
• Rust (Programming Language)
• Java (Programming Language)
• Research
• Application Programming Interface (API)
• C++ (Programming Language)
• Data Structures
• Fault Injection
• GNU Debuggers
• Input/Output
• Strace
• Writing
• React.js (Javascript Library)
• Kubernetes
• Multi-Tenant Cloud Environments

Job areas

• Technology
• Software
• Engineering
• Data & Analytics
• Database Engineer
• Performance Engineer
• Software Developers

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