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