Senior Engineer, Observability and Manageability

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. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, Aerospike has a global presence with offices in London, Bangalore, and Tel Aviv. This is a hybrid role.

Employees are expected to work from the Bangalore office 2-3 times a week.

Job Summary

We are looking for a Senior Engineer to design and build a comprehensive set of management and observability tools for operating Aerospike’s distributed database at enterprise scale.

You will develop solutions to monitor, manage, and administer clusters, users, and security, delivering a frictionless experience that integrates seamlessly with leading enterprise IT environments—both on-premises and in the cloud.

The ideal candidate has experience building large-scale systems and is familiar with modern monitoring, logging, and management technologies used in enterprise environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement tools for cluster monitoring, administration, and lifecycle management
• Build integrations with enterprise observability stacks and cloud platforms
• Develop secure and scalable solutions for user and access management
• Collaborate with database core teams to deliver end-to-end management workflows
• Ensure reliability, performance, and usability of management tools at scale

Required Skills & Experience

• 4–6 years of software development experience
• Proficiency in at least one language: Python, Java, Node.js, or Go
• Experience with monitoring systems such as Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo
• Exposure to cloud observability platforms like New Relic, Datadog, Grafana Cloud
• Experience with log pipelines and analysis tools: Splunk, Logstash, Fluentd, Sumo Logic
• Knowledge of distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry, Jaeger)
• Background in SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering

Nice to Have

• Experience with distributed NoSQL databases
• Familiarity with systems like Hadoop, Spark, Kafka
• Experience with Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform

Aerospike is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing an environment free from discrimination on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law.