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Infra Engineer

  • Canada, United States
  • Remote
  • Posted Sep 18, 2026
  • 1 position

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Employment type
Full-time
Experience level
Senior · 5+ years
Posting language
English
Working hours
40 hours per week

Job summary

You will build and maintain multi-tenant cloud infrastructure and internal tooling to support high-scale database operations. Additionally, you will focus on improving database performance, security, and automating infrastructure management.

Job details

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

What you’ll do

You will build and maintain multi-tenant cloud infrastructure and internal tooling to support high-scale database operations. Additionally, you will focus on improving database performance, security, and automating infrastructure management.

Requirements

Candidates must have extensive experience with Kubernetes, distributed systems, and systems-level programming languages like Rust or Go. You should be capable of managing production-grade cloud infrastructure and possess strong communication skills.

Listed skills

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

Other relevant skills

Identified from the job description. Confirm important requirements above.

  • Rust
  • C++
  • Java
  • Go
  • Kubernetes
  • Distributed Systems
  • Cloud Infrastructure
  • Multi-tenant Services
  • Database Performance
  • Security Posture
  • Systems Programming
  • GKE
  • EKS
  • AKS
  • IAM
  • Vector Search
  • Full-Text Search
  • Go (Programming Language)
  • Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
  • Rust (Programming Language)
  • C++ (Programming Language)
  • Operability
  • Relationship Building
  • Tooling
  • State Machines
  • React.js (Javascript Library)
  • Multi-Tenant Cloud Environments

Job areas

  • Technology
  • Software
  • Engineering
  • Data & Analytics
  • Security & Safety
  • Infrastructure Engineer
  • Site Reliability Engineer
  • Software and Applications Developers and Analysts Not Elsewhere Classified
  • Computer and Information Research Scientists

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