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BetterDB - Founding Engineer

Remote | Full-time

BetterDB (https://betterdb.com) (https://github.com/BetterDB-inc) is building the tooling ecosystem for Valkey, the high-performance Redis fork backed by AWS, Google, and Oracle. They are 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.

About the Role

BetterDB is looking for a senior/founding engineer as their first hire. You'll shape the product and architecture alongside the founder (ex-Redis, backed by Open Core Ventures).

Stack

  • TypeScript
  • NestJS + Fastify
  • React
  • Valkey
  • PostgreSQL
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • AWS

About the Company

BetterDB ships OSS self-hosted and is launching a cloud SaaS. They are building in public — open-source core, open roadmap, and transparent about what they're learning along the way.

To Apply

Email kristiyan@betterdb.com with:

  • A bit about yourself and why this is interesting to you
  • Run BetterDB with BETTERDB_LICENSE_KEY=your@email.address and paste the first 10 lines of startup logs:
docker pull betterdb/monitor
docker run -d \
  --name betterdb \
  -p 3001:3001 \
  -e DB_HOST=your-valkey-host \
  -e DB_PORT=6379 \
  -e BETTERDB_LICENSE_KEY=your@email.address \
  betterdb/monitor:latest

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