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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

BetterDB is hiring a Founding Engineer to help build the tooling ecosystem for Valkey, focusing initially on observability features such as historical persistence, pattern analysis, anomaly detection, and Prometheus export. The engineer will join a small, early-stage team and help shape architecture and roadmap as the first engineer after the founding hire. Stack includes TypeScript, NestJS + Fastify, React, Valkey, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS. We ship OSS self-hosted and have a live cloud SaaS. To apply, email kristiyan@betterdb.com with a bit about yourself and why this is interesting.

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Worldwide remote

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Tech Tags

Senior Role

Date Listed

01 April, 2026 (about 2 months ago)
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