Jobs at Turbopuffer

Recomputed daily from public data: capital freshness (0-35) + hiring velocity (0-30) + pay transparency (0-20) + employer rating (0-15; unrated scores the neutral 7), minus up to 10 for documented headwinds (lawsuits, layoffs, leadership churn). Transparent formula, not investment or career advice.

Seed (undisclosed amount), 2025last round

Earlystage

1-50team size

San FranciscoHQ

2023founded

~36headcount (as of 2026-05)

Founders: Simon Eskildsen (co-founder & CEO, ex-Shopify principal engineer (8 yrs, scaled infra 1K to 1M rps)) · Justin Li (co-founder & CTO, ex-Shopify senior staff engineer)

Backed by: Thrive Capital, Lachy Groom

Signals

Ex-Shopify founders; CEO says under $1M primary capital raised as of May 2026 (capital-efficient); Thrive Capital joined the Dec 2025 seed.

In the news

Turbopuffer CEO on AI, Databases, and Startup Growth StartupHub.ai · 2026-08-03

Simon Eskildsen: Turbopuffer's Object-Storage Bet Cuts Legal AI Search Costs by an Order of Magnitude finance.biggo.com · 2026-09-16

Inside the fastest-growing Canadian AI startup you’ve never heard of The Globe and Mail · 2026-07-03

Simon Eskildsen: the $1-per-million vector database that cut Cursor's bill by 95% finance.biggo.com · 2026-08-03

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Culture read

Small team: high trust, high variance, nowhere to hide.

Indicative read from public signals, not insider info

Momentum index 38/100 = capital freshness (0-35) + hiring velocity (0-30) + comp transparency (0-20) + workplace rating (0-15), minus documented headwinds. Recomputed daily; not investment or career advice.