Staff Software Engineer, Client

At 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.

We empower companies to tackle seemingly insurmountable challenges and achieve what’s never been done before. That’s why we developed the world’s leading real-time database—powering mission-critical applications for the most innovative, category-disrupting organizations.

Aerospike enables extreme-scale, real-time applications that:

• Fight fraud in microseconds.
• Drive dramatic increases in shopping cart size.
• Power global digital payments.
• Deliver hyper-personalized user experiences to tens of millions.

Industry leaders like Airtel, Experian, Nielsen, PayPal, Snap, Verizon Media, and Wayfair trust Aerospike as the foundation for their future. They rely on us to act in the moments that matter.

Headquartered in Mountain View, California, with offices in London, Bangalore, and Tel Aviv, Aerospike is the uncontested leader in next-generation, always-on, hyperscale data solutions. Unlike legacy NoSQL systems, our patented Hybrid Memory Architecture unlocks today’s hardware to deliver unimaginable performance and value for the most demanding data workloads—from the edge, to the core, to the cloud.

In Bengaluru we follow hybrid models with expectation of two days’ work from office.

Client Engineering Job Summary

At Aerospike, we have developed a flexible distributed database with exceptional speed, low latencies, and the ability to easily scale from Gigabytes to Petabytes. This is a modern no-SQL database optimized for the latest advancements in SSD and in-memory tech (such as Intel’s Optane persistent memory.)

We are looking for an engineer to work on Aerospike’s high speed scalable client libraries that interface with the Aerospike database.  Our Smart Client libraries handle critical database cluster management and connection pools to enable extreme low latency and reliable transaction management for our customers’ enterprise applications.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and document Aerospike Client Libraries 
• Analyze and improve the performance,  efficiency, reliability, and scalability of the client-server workflow via the client libraries
• Work with support and sales teams to provide support for the product, with some on-call pager duty (9:30 AM to 9:00 AM 7 days, once every two weeks)

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on coding experience (Java) - required
• 3+ years of hands-on coding experience in another language(any of C, C#, Golang, Rust, Python) - required
• Experience building async and/or multithreaded applications/libs - required
• Experience building high performance code (both space and time complexity) - required
• Experience building dependency libraries a strong plus
• Experience with NoSQL databases a plus.  Experience building/extending databases a strong plus
• Self-starter that demonstrates initiative and ability to work independently with little supervision
• If available, please supply Git repos you have worked on, code examples, or questions you have answered (StackOverflow, etc)

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.