deployed engineer

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 slidesjump on calls to answer the hard questions and unblock dealsown the technical relationship end-to-end. drive evaluations, guide implementationstreat customer problems as your own and don't rest until they're solvedlive in customer slack channels, helping to solve problems and architect solutionssay no when we're not the right fit and always have a growth mindsetwork closely with engineering to drive product roadmap for customersupdate documentation whenever you see an issue or something isn't clearmust have:commercial - you sell painkillers, not vitaminsdata background - you love looking at explain plans and optimizing schemaslinux - you're comfortable in terminals and reading logspython or javascript/typescript - for building solutions and demostypist - you can write well and can explain complex ideas simplyhuman - you build trust and know when you're in over your head nice to have:vector search or full-text search backgroundk8s and cloud platform experienceperformance benchmarking experience tpuf is hardcore & whimsical. we value:overstep > understepshow > tellcomplexity is earnedshowing up as part of our customer's teammaking stuff easy to react to