[Hiring] Senior Director, Forward Deployed Engineer @Aerospike

Role Description

As a Senior Director, Forward Deployed Engineer at Aerospike, you will work directly with Global 2000 engineering teams to build an operational fabric that connects agents to current reality. You will own the technical solution from problem discovery and architecture through implementation, production validation, and iteration.

• Engineer the real-time foundation for business, agent, session, and workflow state.
• Assemble timely, permission-aware context from enterprise data, vector search, and graph relationships.
• Build policy checks, access boundaries, execution limits, approval gates, and human intervention paths around agent actions.
• Translate customer security and governance requirements into enforceable controls and auditable records.
• Connect Authoritative State → Relevant Context → Decision → Action → Consequence → Updated State.

Qualifications

• A strong track record of building and delivering production software, distributed systems, or enterprise data platforms.
• Strong coding skills in at least one of Java, Go, Python, or C/C++, with practical experience in APIs, data modeling, and high-throughput or low-latency systems.
• Hands-on experience delivering AI applications or agent workflows, including state management, retrieval, context assembly, and evaluation.
• Experience implementing authorization, policy enforcement, auditability, and sensitive-data controls in enterprise environments.
• Sound judgment about concurrency, consistency, resilience, security, and operational tradeoffs.
• The ability to lead with limited direction, work effectively with customers, and take ambiguous problems from discovery to reliable production.
• Demonstrated experience managing engineers while remaining technically hands-on, including hiring, coaching, performance feedback, and developing technical leaders.
• Strong delegation, prioritization, and stakeholder-management skills.

Requirements

• Set a clear direction for the FDE team, translating Aerospike’s Operational AI strategy into engineering priorities and measurable outcomes.
• Hire, coach, and develop FDEs through clear expectations, regular feedback, performance management, and career development.
• Set priorities and allocate capacity across customer engagements, balancing strategic value, delivery commitments, and team workload.
• Stay close to the work through coding, design and code reviews, and hands-on debugging.
• Build a high-trust engineering culture with strong quality standards, clear accountability, knowledge sharing, and continuous learning.

Benefits

• Customers operate dependable AI systems that use current, authorized state and context.
• Your impact is measured by production outcomes, reusable engineering assets, and product improvements.

Company Description

Aerospike is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to an environment free from discrimination based on race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, or veteran status.

To keep our recruitment pipeline as high-performance as our database, Aerospike uses AI-driven tools to streamline resume reviews, scheduling, and communication.