Senior Engineering ManagerIf you're ready to shape the future of data, join us.We're looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a team building the Aerospike Cloud Platform — our multi-cloud, multi-tenant offering that brings the power of Aerospike to developers everywhere.This is a hands-on leadership role: you'll guide and grow a team of frontend and backend engineers while staying close to architecture, product decisions, and execution. You'll partner closely with product, design, and backend teams to deliver performant, reliable, and intuitive user experiences at scale.What You'll DoLead, coach, and grow a team of frontend and backend engineers, creating a high-performing and inclusive team environment.Drive execution against the platform technical roadmap, ensuring clarity, prioritization, and consistent delivery.Partner with product and design to translate business needs into clear technical plans and high-quality user experiences in both a UI and API.Stay close to the code: contribute to architecture, unblock engineers, and raise the technical bar across the team.Own the control plane architecture for the Cloud Platform, with a focus on performance, scalability, and reliability.Collaborate with other engineering teams to define and evolve APIs and services and deliver their product services on your platform.Ensure strong engineering practices: testing, observability, CI/CD, and operational excellence.Establish and track meaningful product and user experience metrics.Support production systems, including participating in on-call rotations when needed.Hire and develop top engineering talent, and build a culture of mentorship and continuous improvement.What We're Looking For5–10+ years of experience building and shipping customer-facing applications1–3+ years of experience leading or managing engineers (formal or informal leadership)Strong hands-on experience with a broad but not exhaustive set of modern microservice technologies (Kubernetes, Go, OpenAPI, Temporal, React, etc.)Proven ability to deliver high-quality customer services in production environmentsExperience translating product requirements into scalable technical solutionsSolid understanding of performance, security, and scalability in microservice ecosystemsExperience working with at least one cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure)Familiarity with API design and integrationStrong communication skills and ability to work cross-functionallyExperience supporting production systems and on-call in a 24x7x365 environmentNice to HaveExperience building and operating distributed systems (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)Familiarity with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.)Experience with observability tools (Datadog or similar)Experience working with NoSQL databasesAerospike 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.
Join us at Aerospike and be part of a dynamic team that is shaping the future of data management.