Hiring: Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Platform Company: Aerospike Location: Mountain View, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-17 01:04:12 Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, ArgoCD, Azure, C++, CI/CD, Cassandra, DynamoDB, Encryption, GCP, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, Java, Kotlin, Kubernetes, Microservices, MongoDB, Node.js, OAuth, OIDC, PostgreSQL, Product Management, REST, Redis, SaaS, Systems Design, Terraform About the job Experience: •8+ years of hands-on experience building production distributed backend systems, with demonstrated leadership at the Staff or Lead level. Required Skills: •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. •Define Architectural Strategy: Set the long-term technical vision and multi-cloud strategy for SaaS and control-plane services, ensuring alignment with enterprise-scale customer requirements. •Drive Cross-Functional Impact: Partner with Product Management, Security, Infrastructure, and Executive Leadership to translate complex business needs into durable, scalable technical roadmaps. •Lead System Design for Scale: Architect high-throughput, multi-tenant control and data planes capable of managing distributed deployments under extreme load and strict SLA requirements. •Multiply Engineering Effectiveness: Serve as a force multiplier by mentoring senior engineers, driving technical design reviews, establishing engineering best practices, and raising the overall technical capability of the organization. •Pioneer Technical Innovation: Rapidly prototype and evaluate emerging cloud-native technologies, driving architectural evolution across container orchestration, multi-cloud automation, and resilience engineering. •Lead end-to-end architecture and system design for complex, large-scale multi-cloud platform services. •Partner cross-functionally with product leadership and principal architects to define and drive the multi-year Cloud technology roadmap. Qualifications: •Distributed Database Expertise: Broad experience deploying and operating production distributed databases and caching tiers (e.g., MongoDB, Redis, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, DynamoDB, or Aerospike). •Data Architecture & Trade-offs: Deep understanding of NoSQL vs. Relational models, consistency models (ACID vs. BASE), and caching strategies for high-throughput, low-latency applications. •Automated Lifecycle Management: Experience automating database operations at scale, including cluster provisioning, zero-downtime upgrades, backups, disaster recovery, and cross-region replication. •Scalability & High Availability: Practical experience with sharding, read/write splitting, replication topologies, connection pooling, and multi-node cluster rebalancing. •Languages & Core Tech: Deep expertise in statically typed languages (Go strongly preferred; Kotlin, Java, or C++) for backend infrastructure service design. •Cloud & Orchestration: Advanced experience across multiple major public clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure), deep proficiency with Kubernetes, container internals, and building Kubernetes Operators/Controllers. •Architectural Mastery: Proven track record of designing, launching, and operating enterprise-grade, multi-tenant SaaS platforms or control planes on public cloud infrastructure. •Security & Compliance: Firm understanding of cloud security primitives, zero-trust architectures, authentication/authorization protocols (OAuth, OIDC, mTLS), and encryption at rest/in transit. •System Design & Leadership: Exceptional ability to decompose ambiguous business problems into clean modular systems, negotiate technical trade-offs with stakeholders, and clearly communicate technical vision to leadership and engineering teams. •Hands-on production experience with Aerospike core features or other ultra-low latency NoSQL databases. Compensation: •$190,000 - $220,000 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!