About QuestDB

QuestDB is the fastest growing time-series database in the world.

As a specialized database, QuestDB stores, processes and analyzes time series data in real-time, with a focus on reliability, extreme performance and simplicity. It provides best-in-class hardware efficiency and robust features, saving costs and accelerating time-to-value.

Teams have had success with QuestDB across a wide range of industries, such as Financial Services, Energy, Manufacturing, Web3 and Space Exploration. Fortune 500 companies such as Airbus and Yahoo deploy QuestDB for large-scale, data-intensive production systems, serving close to a billion users. Emerging and disruptive startups also leverage QuestDB to gain a significant edge within traditional industries.

Our open source repository has gathered 14k+ stars in three years, and is the fastest growing in our category according to DB-Engines. We are a product-first company with a large community of developers. As a team, we are globally distributed, remote-first and backed by leading venture capital firms and Y Combinator.

The role

At QuestDB, we're building the fastest open-source time-series database — engineered for real-time data, loved by developers, and battle-tested in production. We've got product-market fit and a thriving community. We need someone to focus on growing developer-led open source adoption and increase the reach of QuestDB across developer communities.

We're hiring a founding member of the go-to-market team to lead organic growth, community activation, and ecosystem visibility. This is a highly strategic and execution-heavy role where you'll focus on the high-leverage channels that matter most for open-source adoption: GitHub, Reddit, Hacker News, and AI-native search surfaces.

You'll work closely with the CEO, product, and engineering teams to build systems that drive product discoverability, contribute to long-term growth, and deepen QuestDB's presence in developer conversations.

Responsibilities

Open Source Community & Contributors

• Nurture and grow the QuestDB GitHub community

• Develop programs to engage contributors and active users

• Participate in discussions and trends on developer-led communities such as Reddit and Hacker News

• Collaborate with engineering to keep a pulse on community feedback, issues, and integrations

Growth

• Build and maintain a repeatable growth playbook for our highest-performing channels: GitHub, Developer forums, Search

• Optimize our presence across developer-facing surfaces for searchability, clarity, and relevance

• Track analytics and performance across all channels

Ecosystem & Integration Visibility

• Partner with adjacent open-source and infrastructure projects to add value to the broader open-source ecosystem

• Support partnerships with positioning and content that make QuestDB more usable and more visible

• Build relationships with influential developers, technical creators, and niche communities to increase reach and credibility

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Be the connective tissue between product, marketing, and engineering

• Help shape the product roadmap by surfacing user understanding gaps

• Act as a thought partner to the CEO on messaging, partnerships, and growth

• Own simple, scalable systems for community growth, discoverability, and content workflows

• Document repeatable playbooks and frameworks for future GTM hires

Requirements

• You've worked on an open-source product and know what healthy community growth looks like

• You know your way around GitHub and have optimized repos for contribution and discoverability

• You've shipped content or programs that earned attention on Reddit, Hacker News, or other technical platforms

• You understand the rise of AI-native search and how it changes how devs find tools

• You're hands-on, creative, and systems-oriented — you build, measure, and iterate

Nice to have

• You've either been a founder, early operator, or built the GTM in a startup

• You're familiar with databases, developer infrastructure, or time-series use cases

• You write well and enjoy translating product value into things people want to read

What we offer

• Generous equity options package

• Flexible working hours

• 100% remote

• Freedom of choice for your technical equipment

• Wonderful, highly qualified colleagues

• Truly international: more than 10 different nationalities

• A transparent, collaborative & inclusive culture

• Exciting opportunities for career progression as we grow

• Little to zero controls combined with autonomous work where you set your own pace in a collaborative environment

Working at QuestDB

We hire talented and passionate people who share our mission to empower developers to solve their problems with data. We are building breakthrough technology to power the infrastructure of tomorrow.

• We are a company with thousands of users; our mission is to empower them

• We invest in a culture that promotes ownership, autonomy and independent thinking

• We have transparent leadership and value employees' strategic inputs

• Our team is ambitious and tackles the most difficult problems at the deepest data infrastructure layer