Posted 10 days ago
Product engineering lead
@ turbopuffer
Canada
Overview
turbopuffer is hiring a product engineering lead to run the team building its user-facing features: playgrounds, observability, alerting, insights and billing. The role covers the developer experience from dashboard and docs to SDKs and the core database, and includes managing a team of three and helping hire to grow it. Full-time.
Responsibilities:
- Design and implement end-to-end developer experience improvements
- Help customers understand, monitor and optimize workloads
- Manage and grow a team of three engineers
- Write clear, concise documentation
Requirements summary:
- Experience leading engineering teams technically and in people management
- Extensive work with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, databases and APIs
- Experience maintaining web products at scale
- Prior work on multi-tenant SaaS apps (billing, authentication, authorization)
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-10-27
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-27
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-27
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Job details
| Seniority | Lead |
| Department | Software development |
| Manages people | Yes |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Work setting | Office |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
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turbopuffer
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serverless {vector, full-text} search from first principles on object storage. faster, 10x cheaper, extremely scalable
Full company description
turbopuffer is a fast search engine that combines vector and full-text search using object storage, making all your data easily searchable. Using only object storage for state and NVMe SSD with memory cache for compute, turbopuffer scales horizontally to handle billions of documents. The system caches only actively searched data while keeping the rest in low-cost object storage, offering competitive pricing. Cold queries process 1 million vectors in 500ms (p90), while warm queries take just 20ms (p50). This architecture means it's as fast as in-memory search engines when cached, but far cheaper to run. Storing data in cache and object storage costs less than traditional replicated disk systems, even for frequently accessed data.
- LinkedIn followers
- 7,114
- People associated on LinkedIn
- 37
- Business categories
- Information Technology
- Database
- Other recorded names
- turbopuffer
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- 0
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turbopuffer is a fast search engine that combines vector and full-text search using object storage, making all your data easily searchable. Using only object storage for state and NVMe SSD with memory cache for compute, turbopuffer scales horizontally to handle billions of documents. The system caches only actively searched data while keeping the rest in low-cost object storage, offering competitive pricing. Cold…
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Technology, Information and Internet |
| Company size | 11-50 employees |
| Organization type | Privately Held |
| Year founded | 2023 |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 4 |
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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
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