product engineer

turbopuffer is looking for product engineers who want to advance the frontier of search. we're doubling down on our developer experience this year 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. - write crisp docs must have: - product engineering - 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