Founding Engineer

BetterDB ( https://betterdb.com ) ( https://github.com/BetterDB-inc ) | Founding Engineer | Remote | Full-time
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 are launching a cloud SaaS.
We're building in public — open-source core, open roadmap, and transparent about what we're learning along the way. Looking for a senior/founding engineer as first hire. You'll shape the product and architecture alongside the founder (ex-Redis, backed by Open Core Ventures).

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
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
(Yes, this filters out bots. And you get to see what you'd be working on.)