Principal Performance & Reliability Engineer, Aerospike
$170-195k
Real-time big data platform for organizations
Open for applications
Real-time big data platform for organizations
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$170-195k
201-500 employees
Company mission
Aerospike's mission is to unleash the power of the world's real-time data.
Role
Who you are
- Experience with at least one programming language, e.g. Java, C/C++, Go, etc…
- Experience running large scale distributed systems in production
- Experience with Database Clients
- Solid understanding of database indexing, query processing, and optimization techniques. Strong background in database architecture, query optimization, and performance tuning
- Experience with Observability tools and techniques such as eBPF, Prometheus and Grafana
- Unix/Linux system administration (RedHat, CentOS, CoreOS)
- Experience automating deployments leveraging tools such as Ansible, Terraform, and Kubernetes
- Strong troubleshooting and excellent technical communication skills, demonstrable contribution to having created high impact in in performance engineering or similar roles for distributed systems
- In-depth experience with a modern NoSQL database. Experience with Aerospike or similar NoSQL databases is highly desirable
- Analytical Skills: Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to diagnose and address complex performance issues
- Communication: Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to clearly convey technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Team Player: Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement
What the job involves
- We are seeking a highly skilled Performance & Reliability Engineer to join our dynamic engineering team. In this role, you will focus on characterizing the performance and reliability of Aerospike’s graph database, ensuring they meet the high standards of efficiency and scalability required by our enterprise customers
- You will work closely with cross-functional teams to enhance our graph database capabilities, troubleshoot performance issues, and implement improvements to drive overall system performance
- Collaboration: Work closely with the Product R&D team to understand performance and reliability requirements and integrate improvements into the development process
- Systems Characterization: Design workloads that stress and characterize the system's performance and reliability of the product as experienced by the customer. Use those workloads to evaluate the impact of changes and identify performance bottlenecks and reliability concerns
- Troubleshooting: Investigate and resolve performance related issues reported by customers or identified through internal testing, providing timely and effective solutions
- Architecture and Design: Contribute to the design and architecture of graph database features, ensuring they are built for scalability and high performance
- Performance Optimization: Analyze and optimize the performance of Aerospike’s graph database features, including query execution, indexing, and data retrieval
- Documentation: Create and maintain comprehensive documentation on performance optimization techniques, benchmarks, and best practices
- Customer Interaction: Engage with customers to gather feedback on performance and understand their requirements, translating their needs into actionable performance improvements. Additionally, work with lighthouse customers to convince them of our expertise in understanding how our product works at scale, best-practices for operations and observability, and our ability to support customer deployments
- Continued Professional Development: Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies, and scour the past for ideas related to graph databases, and improvements to performance and reliability. Apply this knowledge to enhance Aerospike’s offerings
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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