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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.\nThe Opportunity\nAs AI transitions from analysis into action, enterprises need an operational foundation that connects autonomous workflows to live data-backed by authoritative state, low-latency context, and strict runtime controls.\nAs a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) at Aerospike, you will embed directly with customer engineering teams to build and ship these real-time systems. You will bridge software engineering and customer operations: writing production-ready code, integrating Aerospike with enterprise data systems and AI frameworks, and validating performance under real production workloads.\nIn this role, you will take technical requirements from problem discovery through implementation and rollout. Beyond customer delivery, you will contribute directly to Aerospike’s core capabilities by turning engagement-specific solutions into reusable libraries, reference architectures, and tooling.\nWhat You’ll Build\nAuthoritative State Foundations: Build and deploy real-time distributed data models for agent, session, and workflow state. Support high-concurrency reads and writes while meeting explicit requirements for freshness, consistency, and failover recovery.\nContext Assembly Layers: Implement pipelines that join transactional data, streaming sources, vector search indexes, and graph relationships so agent workflows make decisions based on real-time, permission-aware context.\nExecution Guardrails: Integrate policy checks, authentication/authorization boundaries, execution governors, and human-in-the-loop review steps into real-time application paths.\nAuditing and Traceability: Build logging and tracing hooks that record context snapshots, decisions, tool execution, and state mutations to meet enterprise compliance and security standards.\nClosed-Loop Execution Flows: Connect and automate the operational loop: State → Context → Action → Mutation → Updated State, ensuring downstream results reliably inform the next cycle.\nWhat You’ll Do\nEmbed with Customer Teams: Work side-by-side with client engineers to translate operational challenges and specs into clean technical designs, integration plans, and verifiable delivery milestones.\nWrite and Integrate Production Code: Implement scalable services and integrations across Aerospike, enterprise data systems, vector engines, and agent orchestration frameworks.\nValidate Production Readiness: Own technical validation through launch: debug distributed systems issues, profile bottlenecks, and ensure systems operate reliably under high traffic.\nBenchmark and Test: Test real-world operational characteristics-including p99 latency, throughput, cache invalidation, context freshness, failure recovery, and policy enforcement-beyond basic model benchmarks.\nBuild Reusable Field Assets: Identify recurring customer requirements and feed them back into internal engineering to create reusable starter kits, SDK wrappers, test fixtures, and documentation.\nCollaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner with Product, Core Engineering, and Solutions teams to resolve platform bugs, close functional gaps, and assist client teams with deployment best practices.\nHow You’ll Work with Customer & Internal Teams\nSenior FDEs are the primary builders and integration engineers responsible for delivering working Operational AI implementations into production.\nProfessional Services manages baseline infrastructure provisioning, platform migrations, cluster sizing, and general configuration.\nTechnical Account Management (TAM) maintains the day-to-day account relationship and long-term operational health.\nYour Focus: You lead the technical integration, custom data modeling, and application code. You are not responsible for routine account administration, ticket escalation, or generic maintenance support.\nWhat You’ll Bring\n5-8+ years of hands-on software development experience building and deploying backend services, distributed systems, or high-throughput data platforms in production.\nStrong Coding Proficiency: Fluency in at least one modern systems or backend language-Go, Java, Python, or C/C++ -with solid fundamentals in concurrency, API design, and asynchronous patterns.\nData Modeling & Storage Foundations: Practical experience working with low-latency key-value stores, distributed databases, or streaming data platforms (e.g., Kafka, Redis, Cassandra, Aerospike).\nApplied AI & Context Pipelines: Hands-on experience building services that interface with LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) architectures, vector databases, or agent frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex, Temporal).\nEnterprise Integration & Security: Experience implementing authentication/authorization (OAuth, RBAC/ABAC), data validation, and auditable logging in sensitive environments.\nCollaborative Problem-Solving: Ability to navigate ambiguous requirements, communicate technical trade-offs to customer engineers, and work independently with minimal oversight.\nHelpful Experience\nHands-on experience with the Aerospike Real-time Data Platform, Aerospike Vector Search (AVS), or Aerospike Graph.\nExperience with distributed task queues, checkpointing, or durable workflow engines (e.g., Temporal, Airflow).\nBackground with containerized deployments (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure).\nFamiliarity with distributed tracing tools (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Jaeger).\nCompensation and Impact\nEvaluation Metric: Success is evaluated on working production outcomes, robust software delivery, and the creation of reusable assets-not billable hours or professional services utilization.\nComprehensive US Benefits: Competitive base salary, equity options, 401(k) matching, comprehensive health/dental/vision coverage, and remote home office support.\nAerospike is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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