Aerospike aims to unleash the power of real-time data with a database built for infinite scale, speed, and sustainability. The company is growing fast and investing deeply in its Cloud Platform, which is a multi-cloud, multi-tenant platform that brings the power of Aerospike to customers with maximum simplicity, speed, and scale.
Requirements
- 5+ years of relevant experience in backend engineering.
- Solid foundation in computer science, algorithms, and distributed systems.
- Hands-on experience with microservice development.
- Proficient in at least one statically typed back-end programming language: Go, Java, Kotlin, or Scala.
- Experience with Kubernetes and container-based development/deployment.
- Strong familiarity with major public cloud providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
- Experience with Git and CI/CD pipelines.
Responsibilities
- Build core backend systems foundational to our multi-cloud SaaS platform—helping customers deploy and manage high-performance, globally distributed applications with ease.
- Design, implement, and support microservices powering our SaaS and cloud platform.
- Write production-grade code and tests, resolve issues, and analyze performance bottlenecks.
- Develop automated unit and integration tests to ensure business needs are met.
- Support production services in an on-call capacity, including incident response and remediation.
- Contribute to the design and delivery of major features and services, from concept through launch.
- Design and optimize distributed, multi-tenant, auto-scalable services that can handle extreme workloads.
Other
- Communicate progress regularly with stakeholders, project managers, QA teams, and peers against the long-term roadmap.
- Support production services in an on-call rotation, including incident response.
- Collaborate deeply with product managers, architects, QA, and other developers to move fast on a strategic roadmap that reflects real-world customer needs.
- Champion engineering best practices, code quality, and test coverage to ensure our systems 'just work,' even under demanding conditions.
- Bring curiosity and creativity to the table—prototype rapidly, experiment, and lead with technology to advance our platform.
