Senior Principal Engineer, Aerospike
Telemetry & Licensing Systems
$240-312k
Real-time big data platform for organizations
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Real-time big data platform for organizations
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$240-312k
201-500 employees
Company mission
Aerospike's mission is to unleash the power of the world's real-time data.
Role
Who you are
- 15+ years of experience in software engineering, with expertise in high-scale, high-performance service-oriented systems
- Proven success designing and delivering large-scale telemetry, ingestion, or licensing platforms in production
- Strong experience across cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, containers, microservices)
- Hands-on depth in languages such as Java, Python, Go, or similar, with comfort across multiple stacks
- Track record of modernizing complex systems and driving initiatives spanning dozens of engineers and global teams
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, able to clarify complexity and influence at all levels
- Preferred: Experience with observability and incident response tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty)
- Preferred: Industry recognition through open-source contributions, publications, or external talks
What the job involves
- Aerospike is building the core systems that fuel our growth engine, telemetry ingestion, licensing enforcement, entitlement APIs, and usage-based monetization
- As Senior Principal Engineer, you’ll set the architectural vision for these platforms, breaking down highly ambiguous challenges into clear, actionable designs
- You’ll bring a track record of solving high-risk, high-impact problems and will shape how Aerospike enables product-led growth across self-managed and cloud deployments
- Lead the design and architecture of Aerospike’s telemetry and licensing systems, ensuring global scale, reliability, and security
- Break down complex, ambiguous technical challenges into actionable strategies that align system design with company growth goals
- Define long-term architecture for entitlement services, usage metering, high-watermark billing, and event models
- Partner with Product, RevOps, and Finance to integrate telemetry and licensing into monetization and adoption workflows
- Mentor and guide engineers across teams, building alignment on system design and execution
- Anticipate technical risks in hybrid SaaS + self-managed deployments and define mitigation strategies
- Drive adoption of observability-first practices across telemetry pipelines and licensing services
- Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation, providing senior-level technical leadership during critical incidents
- Represent Aerospike externally as a thought leader in telemetry, licensing, and distributed systems
Our take
Aerospike is a high speed data platform that promises to reduce server footprints by up to 80%. Aimed at satisfying large-scale data platform requirements, clients include PayPal, Verizon Media, European Central Bank, and Snap Inc.
While there are other data platforms available such as DataStax, Redis Labs and Couchbase, Aerospike sets itself apart through offering no trade off between cost and a high level of performance and consistency on a large scale.
As massive petabyte data sets become the norm for large businesses, Aerospike realises the need for systems that can handle this in real-time. Its release of Aerospike Connect brings connectivity of Aerospike Database 5 with a range of big-name open-source frameworks such Apache Spark, Presto, Pulsar, Kafka and JMS - making Aerospike products more useful to a wider client set. Impressive Series E funding awarded in 2024 will be used to further develop its AI capabilities, specifically around graph and vector functions, capitalising on the current boom in the machine learning sector.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Dec 2024
$30m
LATE VC
Apr 2024
$109m
SERIES E
Total funding: $201m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health plans & FSAs
- Healthy in-office snacks
- 401(k)
- Unlimited PTO
- Well-equipped workspace with standing desks, high-quality equipment and a fully stocked kitchen
- Weekly happy hours and regular company events
- Global team - you have the chance to connect with an international community and gain a global perspective
Company HQ
Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Srini Srinivasan
(CTO)Worked as an IBM Senior Engineer for 4 years before working as a Server Architect at VerdiSoft and Yahoo!. They left their CTO role at Citrusleaf in 2009 to found Aerospike, serving as CPO since 2019.
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