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Founding Engineer

About BetterDB

BetterDB is building the tooling ecosystem for Valkey, the high-performance Redis fork backed by AWS, Google, and Oracle. We're starting with observability — historical persistence, pattern analysis, anomaly detection, and Prometheus export — so you can debug what happened at 3am when you wake up at 9am. We ship OSS self-hosted and have a live cloud SaaS.

Job Description

Role: Founding Engineer. Full-time remote. Build and own core observability tooling for Valkey, the high-performance Redis fork backed by AWS, Google, and Oracle. Stack: TypeScript, NestJS + Fastify, React, Valkey, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS. We ship OSS self-hosted and have a live cloud SaaS. Help design and implement features including historical persistence, pattern analysis, anomaly detection, and Prometheus export. You will contribute to both OSS and cloud SaaS and help shape product direction and architecture. We hire the first engineer in March and are looking to expand the team; this is a founding role with impact.

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Tech Tags

AWSDockerFastifyKubernetesNest.jsPostgreSQLReactTerraformTypescriptValkey

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Date Listed

05 May, 2026 (3 months ago)
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