turbopuffer is looking for an engineer to lead the team that is building all of our user facing features. we're doubling down on our customer experience and looking to ship a host of highly requested features and improvements (playgrounds, observability, alerting, insights, billing).
what you'll do:- design and implement end-to-end improvements to our overall developer experience from the UX (dashboard, docs, site, SDKs) to our core database.
- help customers understand, monitor, and optimize their tpuf workloads.
- manage a team of (currently) 3 and support in the hiring and building of this team
- write crisp docs
must have:- product engineering
- you have lead engineering teams (technically and people management)
- you've worked extensively with browser technologies (HTML/CSS/JS/TS) and web apps in general (databases, APIs)
- you are passionate about UX and can think like a product manager
- you are driven by solving user problems
- you have an eye for design
- domain expertise
- you've maintained and iterated on web-based products at scale
- you have prior experience with multi-tenant SaaS apps (billing, authentication, authorization)
- typist - you can write well and explain complex ideas simply
- human - you build trust and admit what you don't know
nice to have:- experience in the React ecosystem (shadcn/ui, Next.js, Tailwind, Vercel) and/or backend frameworks (Rails, Phoenix, Django)
- an interest in vector and full-text search and experience interacting with tools in the space
- prior experience with Rust
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
