[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer, Cloud @Aerospike

Role Description

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Cloud team and play a key role in designing and building the infrastructure orchestration, control loops, and operational systems that power Aerospike Cloud. Your work will directly impact the reliability, scalability, and safety of production database clusters used by customers worldwide.

What You’ll Do

• Drive real impact: You’ll build and evolve the systems that provision and manage Aerospike Cloud clusters, spanning Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, storage, networking, and long-running workflows.
• Collaborate deeply: You’ll work closely with product managers, architects, control-plane engineers, and SREs to deliver reliable platform capabilities while balancing customer needs, operational safety, and long-term maintainability.
• Build for reliability and scale: From safely orchestrating cluster lifecycle operations to handling failure modes in cloud infrastructure, you’ll design and implement systems that behave predictably under load and degrade gracefully when things go wrong.
• Elevate operational quality: You’ll help define best practices around rollout safety, workflow versioning, observability, and incident prevention, raising the bar for how we operate stateful systems in Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain components and workloads responsible for provisioning and managing Kubernetes-based Aerospike clusters.
• Build and evolve workflows used to orchestrate long-running infrastructure and database lifecycle operations.
• Develop Kubernetes-native systems using controllers, operators, and CRDs.
• Own cloud infrastructure automation using Terraform, including VPCs, EKS clusters, IAM, storage, and networking.
• Design and maintain persistent storage lifecycles involving EBS volumes, local NVMe instance storage, and backups.
• Diagnose and resolve complex production issues spanning Kubernetes, cloud provider APIs, and distributed systems.
• Improve observability through metrics, logs, and alerts using Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and Datadog.
• Collaborate across teams to evolve architecture, improve reliability, and prevent operational regressions.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of relevant software engineering experience.
• Strong foundation in computer science, distributed systems, and debugging complex systems.
• Proficiency in at least one statically typed backend language (preferably Go).
• Experience developing and operating distributed systems in production.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads.
• Experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS preferred).
• Experience designing, deploying, and operating stateful systems.
• Familiarity with Git-based workflows and CI/CD pipelines.

Preferred Skills and Qualifications

• Proficiency in Go.
• Experience with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code.
• Experience with Kubernetes Operators, controllers, or CRDs.
• Experience with workflow orchestration systems (Temporal, Cadence, Airflow, etc.).
• Strong understanding of cloud networking concepts (VPCs, subnets, IP management, load balancers).
• Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Datadog).
• Experience operating storage systems (EBS, instance store, backups).

Benefits

• Aerospike is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
• We are committed to providing an environment free from discrimination on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law.
• Salary Range for California Based Applicants: [$169,000 - $195,000] (actual compensation will be determined based on experience, location, and other factors permitted by law).