Aerospike

Aerospike

Senior Software Engineer, Control Plane

Remote, USA · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$169k-$195kDetected 112 days ago
JavaGoKotlinScalaBackend DevelopmentAlgorithmsGitNoSQLAWSAzureCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesTerraformAnsibleCI/CDDevOpsTemporalMachine LearningArgo CD

About the role

  • Aerospike powers millions of transactions per second with millisecond latency, at a fraction of the total cost of ownership compared to other databases.
  • To foster strong team alignment and productivity, Bay Area-based team members are expected to work from the office 3 times per week-typically Tuesday through Thursday.
  • If you're ready to shape the future of data, join us.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate deeply. You'll work closely with product managers, architects, QA, and other developers to move fast on a strategic roadmap that reflects real-world customer needs for internal and external developers.
  • Build for scale. From optimizing performance to designing for multi-tenancy and auto-scaling, you'll write production-grade code that's secure, maintainable, and blazing fast.
  • Write code and tests, build prototypes, resolve issues, and profile and analyze bottlenecks
  • Optimize backend services for performance and scalability
  • Develop automated unit and integration tests to ensure business needs are met.
  • Experience in developing distributed, multi-tenant, auto-scalable backend services

Requirements

  • Required skills and qualifications
  • Experience with at least one of the major public cloud providers: AWS, Google, Azure

Nice to have

  • Experience with NoSQL and relational databases and database fundamentals, including data storage, data replication, data modeling, and data access patterns
  • Experience with developing, deploying, and maintaining distributed services with containers (Docker) & orchestration (Kubernetes, EKS, GKE)
  • Experience with Git and CI/CD pipeline engines
  • Technical knowledge and understanding of techniques and standards for authentication, authorization, and encryption
  • Preferred skills and qualifications
  • Proficient in Go
  • Experience with NoSQL database development
  • Experience with Terraform, Ansible, and other DevOps technologies

Skills

  • Aerospike is the real-time database for mission-critical use cases and workloads, including machine learning, generative, and agentic AI.

Compensation

  • [$169,000 - $195,000] (actual compensation will be determined based on experience, location, and other factors permitted by law)

Benefits

  • You'll champion code quality and test coverage, raise the bar for engineering standards, and help us build systems that just work -even under extreme load.

Company info

  • Drive real impact. You'll build core backend systems that are foundational to our multi-cloud SaaS platform-helping customers deploy and manage high-performance, globally distributed applications with ease.
  • Innovate boldly. At Aerospike, we value curiosity, courage, and creativity. You'll bring new ideas to the table, prototype rapidly, and be empowered to experiment and lead with technology.
  • Join us at Aerospike and be part of a dynamic team that is shaping the future of data management.

Equal opportunity

  • Aerospike is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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