Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Platform

Aerospike is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership and architecture for its multi-cloud Cloud Platform. The role defines platform architecture and roadmaps, designs large-scale services, resolves distributed-systems challenges, establishes operational standards, and mentors engineers.

Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end architecture and system design for complex, large-scale multi-cloud platform services
• Collaborate with product leadership and principal architects to define and drive the multi-year Cloud technology roadmap
• Author comprehensive RFCs and technical design documents; lead architecture review forums across engineering teams
• Debug, profile, and solve complex, cross-cutting distributed systems issues involving networking, data consistency, multi-tenancy, and state management
• Establish baseline standards for observability, high availability, security, and operational excellence across platform microservices
• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers through code reviews, design guidance, and career development sponsorship

Requirements:

• 8+ years of hands-on experience building production distributed backend systems, with demonstrated leadership at the Staff or Lead level
• Broad experience deploying and operating production distributed databases and caching tiers (e.g., MongoDB, Redis, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, DynamoDB, or Aerospike)
• Deep understanding of NoSQL vs. Relational models, consistency models (ACID vs. BASE), and caching strategies for high-throughput, low-latency applications
• Experience automating database operations at scale, including cluster provisioning, zero-downtime upgrades, backups, disaster recovery, and cross-region replication
• Practical experience with sharding, read/write splitting, replication topologies, connection pooling, and multi-node cluster rebalancing
• Deep expertise in statically typed languages (Go strongly preferred; Kotlin, Java, or C++) for backend infrastructure service design
• Advanced experience across multiple major public clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure), deep proficiency with Kubernetes, container internals, and building Kubernetes Operators/Controllers
• Proven track record of designing, launching, and operating enterprise-grade, multi-tenant SaaS platforms or control planes on public cloud infrastructure
• Firm understanding of cloud security primitives, zero-trust architectures, authentication/authorization protocols (OAuth, OIDC, mTLS), and encryption at rest/in transit
• Exceptional ability to decompose ambiguous business problems into clean modular systems, negotiate technical trade-offs with stakeholders, and clearly communicate technical vision to leadership and engineering teams
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• Hands-on production experience with Aerospike core features or other ultra-low latency NoSQL databases
• Proven track record of developing custom Kubernetes Operators or Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) for data-intensive applications
• Production experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, OpenTofu) and modern GitOps/CI/CD practices (ArgoCD, Flux)
• Active contributions to open-source cloud-native or data infrastructure projects