Senior Software Engineer, Aerospike

• At least 5 years of relevant software engineering experience
• Strong foundation in computer science, distributed systems, and debugging complex systems
• Proficiency in at least one statically typed backend language (preferably Go)
• Experience developing and operating distributed systems in production
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads
• Experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS preferred)
• Experience designing, deploying, and operating stateful systems
• Familiarity with Git-based workflows and CI/CD pipelines

Desirable

• 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 growing fast and investing deeply in our Cloud Platform, with a particular focus on the systems that provision, operate, and monitor Aerospike databases running in customer-dedicated Kubernetes clusters
• We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Cloud team and play a key role in designing and building the infrastructure orchestration, control loops, and operational systems that power Aerospike Cloud
• Your work will directly impact the reliability, scalability, and safety of production database clusters used by customers worldwide
• Drive real impact:
• You’ll build and evolve the systems that provision and manage Aerospike Cloud clusters, spanning Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, storage, networking, and long-running workflows
• Collaborate deeply:
• You’ll work closely with product managers, architects, control-plane engineers, and SREs to deliver reliable platform capabilities while balancing customer needs, operational safety, and long-term maintainability
• Build for reliability and scale:
• From safely orchestrating cluster lifecycle operations to handling failure modes in cloud infrastructure, you’ll design and implement systems that behave predictably under load and degrade gracefully when things go wrong
• Elevate operational quality:
• You’ll help define best practices around rollout safety, workflow versioning, observability, and incident prevention, raising the bar for how we operate stateful systems in Kubernetes
• Design, implement, and maintain components and workloads responsible for provisioning and managing Kubernetes-based Aerospike clusters
• Build and evolve workflows used to orchestrate long-running infrastructure and database lifecycle operations
• Develop Kubernetes-native systems using controllers, operators, and CRDs
• Own cloud infrastructure automation using Terraform, including VPCs, EKS clusters, IAM, storage, and networking
• Design and maintain persistent storage lifecycles involving EBS volumes, local NVMe instance storage, and backups
• Diagnose and resolve complex production issues spanning Kubernetes, cloud provider APIs, and distributed systems
• Improve observability through metrics, logs, and alerts using Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and Datadog
• Collaborate across teams to evolve architecture, improve reliability, and prevent operational regressions