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Aerospike powers millions of transactions per second with millisecond latency, at a fraction of the total cost of ownership compared to other databases.\nGlobal 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.\nAt 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.\nIf you're ready to shape the future of data, join us.\nWe are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to serve as a technical authority and strategic architect for our Cloud Engineering organization. In this role, you will define the architectural vision and drive the execution of our next-generation, global multi-cloud SaaS platform.\nYour work will fundamentally shape how global enterprises deploy, operate, and scale Aerospike at extreme velocity and petabyte scale-pushing the absolute limits of real-time, always-on distributed systems.\nWhat You'll Do\nArchitect at Enterprise Scale: Drive the multi-year technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for our multi-cloud SaaS platform, ensuring high availability, sub-millisecond efficiency, and seamless multi-tenancy.\nEstablish Engineering Standards: Set the bar for system design, security, reliability, operational excellence, and testing across the entire engineering organization.\nDrive Technical Leadership & Strategy: Partner closely with executive stakeholders, product leadership, and principal architects to translate complex enterprise needs into scalable, resilient platform capabilities.\nForce Multiply: Mentor and elevate senior and staff engineers, foster a culture of deep technical rigor, and guide distributed teams through complex technical tradeoffs.\nSolve the Unsolved: Tackle the toughest performance, state management, orchestration, and topology challenges inherent in running real-time databases across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.\nKey Responsibilities\nLead the architectural design and strategic execution of complex cloud-native control planes, data planes, and underlying microservice ecosystems.\nDesign for extreme scale: optimize distributed runtime environments, auto-scaling mechanisms, cross-region replication, and stateful workload orchestration.\nAuthor critical platform primitives, framework standards, and foundational code while reviewing high-impact designs across teams.\nServe as a primary escalation point for critical architectural risks, systemic performance bottlenecks, and high-severity platform outages.\nInfluence platform ecosystem strategy, including Kubernetes operator patterns, infrastructure-as-code automation, and workflow orchestration.\nRequired Qualifications\n10+ years of hands-on experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems and cloud platforms.\nProven Track Record: Experience acting in a Principal, Staff+, or Lead Architect capacity for a high-growth SaaS, IaaS, or database platform.\nDeep Distributed Systems Expertise: Mastery of fault tolerance, consensus protocols, multi-tenant isolation, data partitioning, and consistency models.\nCloud-Native Systems Mastery: Deep expertise in Go (preferred) or other statically typed languages (Java, C++, Rust), alongside advanced Kubernetes internals and custom controller/operator development.\nMulti-Cloud Architecture: Deep production experience across major public clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure) at massive scale.\nData & Storage Systems: Deep conceptual and practical understanding of NoSQL internals, access patterns, storage engine mechanics, and high-throughput data pipelines.\nOperational & Reliability Excellence: Experience establishing SLOs/SLIs, designing robust self-healing systems, and leading chaos engineering or incident post-mortem practices.\nPreferred Qualifications\nDirect experience building Kubernetes Operators (e.g., Kubebuilder, Operator SDK) for stateful applications.\nExperience with orchestration engines like Temporal.\nProficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, OpenTofu) and modern cloud-native observability stacks (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana).\nPrior experience in database-as-a-service (DBaaS), infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), or low-latency systems.\nActive contribution to relevant open-source projects in the cloud-native or distributed storage ecosystem.\nSalary Range: $260,000 - $320,000\n(Actual compensation will be based on experience, location, and other relevant factors.)\nAerospike is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to an environment free from discrimination based on race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, or veteran status.\nTo keep our recruitment pipeline as high-performance as our database, Aerospike uses AI-driven tools to streamline resume reviews, scheduling, and communication. While we love smart tech, we value human connection even more. 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