[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer, Control Plane @Aerospike

Role Description

We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Cloud team and play a key role in designing and building the next generation of our platform services. Your work will directly shape the way global enterprises deploy, manage, and scale Aerospike in the cloud—and will help push the boundaries of what real-time, always-on systems can achieve.

• 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.
• 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.
• Elevate quality: 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.
• 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.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of relevant experience
• Excellent foundation in computer science and algorithms
• Experience in developing distributed, multi-tenant, auto-scalable backend services
• Proficient knowledge of one or more statically typed back-end programming languages (Go, Kotlin, Java, Scala)
• Experience with at least one of the major public cloud providers: AWS, Google, Azure
• 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

Requirements

• Produce quality code, raising the bar for team performance and speed
• 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
• Join the on-call rotation for services in your focus area as a technical expert to help address customer-impacting issues

Preferred Skills and Qualifications

• Proficient in Go
• Experience with NoSQL database development
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, and other DevOps technologies
• Experience with the Kubernetes Operator pattern
• Experience with a workflow engineer (ArgoCD, Temporal)

Benefits

• Aerospike is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
• 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)