[Remote] Senior Software Engineer, Control Plane

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Aerospike is the real-time database for mission-critical use cases and workloads, including machine learning and AI. They are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design and build the next generation of their Cloud Platform services, focusing on creating high-performance, scalable backend systems.

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 rotation for services in your focus area as a technical expert to help address customer-impacting issues

Skills

• At least 5 years of relevant experience
• Excellent foundation in computer science and algorithms
• Experience in developing distributed, multi-tenant, auto-scalable backend services
• Proficient knowledge of one or more statically typed back-end programming languages (Go, Kotlin, Java, Scala)
• Experience with at least one of the major public cloud providers: AWS, Google, Azure
• Experience with NoSQL and relational databases and database fundamentals, including data storage, data replication, data modeling, and data access patterns
• Experience with developing, deploying, and maintaining distributed services with containers (Docker) & orchestration (Kubernetes, EKS, GKE)
• Experience with Git and CI/CD pipeline engines
• Technical knowledge and understanding of techniques and standards for authentication, authorization, and encryption
• Proficient in Go
• Experience with NoSQL database development
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, and other DevOps technologies
• Experience with the Kubernetes Operator pattern
• Experience with a workflow engineer (ArgoCD, Temporal)

Company Overview

Aerospike is a NoSQL database designed for real-time and mission-critical applications. It was founded in 2009, and is headquartered in Mountain View, California, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is http://www.aerospike.com.

Company H1B Sponsorship

Aerospike has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 10 in 2025, 1 in 2024, 2 in 2023, 11 in 2022, 3 in 2021, 5 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.