head of deployed engineering

Anywhere, Remote. Posted 26 days ago

The role

You will lead and develop the deployed engineering function as a player-coach. You will own technical outcomes for customers through demos, POCs, benchmarks, and firefighting.

What you will do

Lead and develop the DE team as a player-coach
Work with GTM peers to develop and refine the technical sales motion
Act as a bridge between GTM and engineering teams
Own the technical relationship from discovery to expansion and renewal
Spend time in-person visiting prospects and customers
Build concrete benchmarks, demos and POCs
Drive evaluations and guide implementations
Live in customer slack channels to solve problems and architect solutions

Required qualifications

Leadership exp
AI-first
Commercial
Sales x technical
Data or database background
Linux
Python or javascript/typescript
Typist

Nice to have

Vector search or full-text search background
k8s and cloud platform experience
Performance benchmarking experience

About the company

turbopuffer is looking for someone to lead and develop our deployed engineering function. tpuf is hardcore & whimsical.