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 .

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 rotatio