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

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

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