customer engineer

Turbopuffer (turbopuffer.com) · US / Canada · First seen 2026-10-29

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  • Full-time
  • Remote from Canada, United States
  • Work permit not stated
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employment types
ATS employment type: full_time
workplace
ATS workplace type: remote
remote eligible countries
ATS location: US / Canada
locations
ATS location: US / Canada

Job description

turbopuffer is looking for an engineer to help our customers succeed. While every day is different; (from digging into unfamiliar systems and debugging, to writing code when that's what it takes), you'll see each issue through to its end.

what you'll do:

- debug customer issues, optimize queries

- write examples for our docs

- write code to solve customer problems, ship PRs, and build automations

- live in customer slack channels, helping to solve problems from first report to resolution

- own customer outcomes

must have:

- typist - you can write well and can explain complex ideas simply

- linux - you're comfortable in terminals and reading logs

- python or javascript/typescript - for reproducing issues and building solutions

- human - you build trust and keep things productive when everything's on fire

- systematic - you methodically work through problems until you've found the root cause

nice to have:

- k8s experience

- vector search or full-text search background

- experience with the major cloud platforms

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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