Senior Software Engineer, Control Plane

Aerospike is the real-time database for mission-critical use cases and workloads, including machine learning, generative, and agentic AI. 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, including Adobe, Airtel, Barclays, Criteo, DBS Bank, Experian, Grab, HDFC Bank, PayPal, Sony Interactive Entertainment, The Trade Desk, and Wayfair, rely on Aerospike for customer 360, fraud detection, real-time bidding, profile stores, recommendation engines, and other use cases. At Aerospike, we dream big and deliver even bigger. Our mission is to unleash the power of the world’s real-time data with a database built for infinite scale, speed, and sustainability . To foster strong team alignment and productivity, Bay Area–based team members are expected to work from the office 3 times per week—typically Tuesday through Thursday. If you're ready to shape the future of data, join us. We’re growing fast and investing deeply in our Cloud Platform —a multi-cloud, multi-tenant platform that brings the power of Aerospike to customers with maximum simplicity, speed, and scale. 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. What You'll Do: 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. Responsibilities Communicate regularly with stakeholders, project managers, quality assurance teams, and other developers regarding progress on a long-term technology roadmap 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 Required skills and 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 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) 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. Join us at Aerospike and be part of a dynamic team that is shaping the future of data management. 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)