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Aerospike · 2 months ago

Senior Backend / SDK Engineer, Growth Infrastructure

positionUnited States
timeFull-time
remoteRemote
seniorityMid, Senior Level
money$134K/yr - $174K/yr
date4+ years exp

Aerospike is a real-time database company focused on mission-critical use cases, including machine learning and AI. The role involves building backend services and developer-facing SDKs that power Aerospike’s growth platform, ensuring reliable data flow across deployments.

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Responsibilities

Build scalable telemetry ingestion pipelines (API-first, Pub/Sub/Kafka optional, warehouse targets like BigQuery or Snowflake)
Design and maintain licensing services for usage metering, entitlement APIs, high-watermark billing logic, and token/UUID validation
Develop and maintain developer-facing SDKs (Go, Java, Python, Node) and CLI tools for telemetry, feature flags, and license validation
Define schemas, thresholds, and event models aligned with licensing enforcement and adoption signals
Collaborate with PMs, RevOps, and CS on system health metrics, billing workflows, and customer-facing usage reporting
Ensure SDKs integrate with CDPs (Segment, RudderStack, Posthog) and internal telemetry pipelines (BigQuery, Snowflake, dbt)
Maintain schema compatibility and versioning across services and SDKs
Support production services in a 24x7 on-call rotation, driving reliability and incident response
Build with scalability, maintainability, reliability, and security as core principles

Qualification

Backend engineeringSDK developmentDistributed systemsData warehousesProduction supportGoJavaPythonNodeEvent-driven pipelinesObservability servicesETL patternsCDC patternsDatadogPrometheusGrafanaPagerDutyHybrid SaaSDeveloper experience tooling

Required

4+ years of backend or SDK engineering experience (Go preferred; Java/Python also fine)
Strong background in distributed systems, event-driven pipelines, or observability services
Experience building developer-facing SDKs, CLIs, or platform APIs
Familiarity with data warehouses (BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift) and ETL/CDC patterns
Experience supporting production systems in a high-availability environment

Preferred

Familiarity with Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty
Background in hybrid SaaS/on-premises deployments and developer experience tooling

Company

Aerospike

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Aerospike is a NoSQL database designed for real-time and mission-critical applications.
dateFounded in 2009
location
Mountain View, California, USA
people-size201-500 employees
web-link
http://www.aerospike.com

H1B Sponsorship

Aerospike has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (10)
2024 (1)
2023 (2)
2022 (11)
2021 (3)
2020 (5)

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$241M
Key Investors
CIBC Innovation BankingSumeru Equity PartnersTriangle Peak Partners
2024-12-03Series Unknown
2024-04-04Series E· $109M
2021-01-01Debt Financing· $70M

Leadership Team

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Srini V. Srinivasan
Chief Technology Officer
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Recent News

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Aerospike Raises $20 Million in Series C Funding
2025-12-01
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New Aerospike Workshops Deliver Hands-on Build of Real-Time Feature Stores for Predictive, Generative, and Agentic AI Apps
2025-10-31
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Aerospike Database 8.0 Wins 2025 SiliconANGLE TechForward Awards
2025-09-30
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