Founding Engineer

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.

Stack: TypeScript, NestJS + Fastify, React, Valkey, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS.

We ship OSS self-hosted and have a live cloud SaaS: https://betterdb.com/login In the last two months we've averaged more than one release per week across multiple products and channels. That's what "moves fast" looks like in practice.

We hired our first engineer last month and are looking to expand the team — no pressure on timeline, we'd rather find the right person.

To apply, first run BetterDB and use your email as the license key for npm/docker, for cloud just register with the same email you are applying. Pick whichever is easiest:

  Cloud (no setup): https://betterdb.com/login

  Via npm (includes a built-in installer):
    npx @betterdb/monitor

  Via Docker:
    docker run -d \
      --name betterdb-monitor \
      -p 3001:3001 \
      -e DB_HOST=your-valkey-host \
      -e DB_PORT=6379 \
      -e BETTERDB_LICENSE_KEY=your@email.com \
      betterdb/monitor:latest

Then email kristiyan@betterdb.com with a bit about yourself and why this is interesting to you.

I reply to everyone. It might take a day or two given volume, but you'll hear back.