GTM – Community, Growth & Ecosystem

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 QuestDB is a high-performance, open-source SQL database for applications in financial services, IoT, machine learning, DevOps and observability. It includes endpoints for PostgreSQL wire protocol, high-throughput schema-agnostic ingestion using InfluxDB Line Protocol, and a REST API for queries, bulk imports, and exports. QuestDB implements ANSI SQL with native extensions for time-oriented language features. These extensions make it simple to correlate data from multiple sources using relational and time series joins. QuestDB achieves high performance from a column-oriented storage model, massively-parallelized vector execution, SIMD instructions, and various low-latency techniques. The entire codebase was built from the ground up in Java and C++, with no dependencies, and is 100% free from garbage collection.