Product Engineering Lead

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