Aerospike

Aerospike

Senior Engineering Manager, Control Plane

Remote, USA · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$180k-$230kDetected 5 days ago
ReactDistributed SystemsGitNoSQLAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesCI/CDGitHub ActionsJenkinsDatadogTemporalAPI DevelopmentOpenAPIMachine LearningLLMsLeadershipCommunicationMentoring

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.
  • Global leaders rely on Aerospike for fraud detection, customer 360, recommendation engines, real-time bidding, and other demanding use cases.
  • If you're ready to shape the future of data, join us.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, coach, and grow a team of frontend and backend engineers, creating a high-performing and inclusive team environment
  • Drive execution against the platform technical roadmap, ensuring clarity, prioritization, and consistent delivery
  • Partner with product and design to translate business needs into clear technical plans and high-quality user experiences in both a UI and API
  • Own the control plane architecture for the Cloud Platform, with a focus on performance, scalability, and reliability
  • Collaborate with other engineering teams to define and evolve APIs and services and deliver their product services on your platform
  • Support production systems, including participating in on-call rotations when needed
  • Hire and develop top engineering talent, and build a culture of mentorship and continuous improvement
  • You'll partner closely with product, design, and backend teams to deliver performant, reliable, and intuitive user experiences at scale.

Requirements

  • 5-10+ years of experience building and shipping customer-facing applications
  • 1-3+ years of experience leading or managing engineers (formal or informal leadership)
  • Strong hands-on experience with a broad but not exhaustive set of modern microservice technologies (Kubernetes, Go, OpenAPI, Temporal, React, etc.)
  • Experience translating product requirements into scalable technical solutions
  • Experience working with at least one cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
  • Strong communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally
  • Experience supporting production systems and on-call in a 24x7x365 environment

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.)
  • Experience with observability tools (Datadog or similar)
  • Experience working with NoSQL databases
  • You'll have a direct impact on how developers interact with Aerospike in the cloud, while helping grow a strong, thoughtful engineering culture.
  • Aerospike is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Skills

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

Compensation

  • [$180,000 - $ 230,000] (actual compensation will be determined based on experience, location, and other factors permitted by law)

Company info

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