deployed engineer

Job description

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