deployed engineer

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 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 values we live by: - overstep > understep - correctness > simplicity > performance - customer traces > first principles > hunches - show > tell