infrastructure engineer
Turbopuffer · US / Canada · Canada
- Employer
- Turbopuffer
- Requisition id
- 5d81b914-3ddf-4cf1-b1a7-99f5cb75ace6
- First posted (employer ATS)
- (19d ago)
- First seen by this site
- 2026-09-16T18:47:32Z
- Last verified live
- 2026-09-16T20:17:45Z
- Source
- Employer career portal (ashby)
Job description
turbopuffer is looking for infra engineers who want to ship a hundred databases every day https://turbopuffer.com/blog/control-plane.
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
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