About Aerospike

Aerospike is the real-time database powering mission-critical systems at global innovators. Our platform delivers predictable sub-millisecond latency at massive scale and a dramatically lower TCO enabling fraud prevention payments customer 360 real-time bidding ML workloads and agentic AI.

Our mission is simple: to enable real-time data at global scale with a database built for speed scalability and sustainability.

This is a hybrid role with three days of in-office work.

About the Client Engineering Team

The Client Engineering team builds and maintains Aerospikes Smart Client Libraries intelligent high-performance software used by every Aerospike customer SDKs are sophisticated libraries that manage topology routing connection pools failover logic and performance optimizations to ensure consistent sub-millisecond transactions.

This team plays a critical role in achieving Aerospikes real-time performance characteristics. Their work defines how developers integrate with Aerospike and directly impacts the reliability and speed of mission-critical customer applications across fintech telco ad-tech retail and AI/ML systems.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Staff Engineer who combines deep systems engineering expertise with strong technical influence. This role is hands-on where you will design core components guide architectural decisions mentor engineers and help shape the growth of the new Client Engineering team in Bangalore.

What Youll Do

Technical Ownership

• Build and optimize Smart Client Libraries in Java and Go.
• Own key client-server communication components.
• Drive performance improvements and maintain sub-millisecond behavior.

Technical Collaboration

• Mentor and guide team members.
• Work with global engineering teams to deliver stable client releases.
• Help troubleshoot complex client-side issues (L3).

Impact Beyond Code

• Improve API usability and developer experience.
• Maintain high standards for code quality and reliability.
• Contribute to better engineering practices for the India team.

What You Bring :

Required Skills & Experience

• 8 years in software engineering with strong Java and Go skills.
• Solid understanding of concurrency networking and distributed systems.
• Experience with SDKs/libraries and mentoring engineers.

Preferred Skills

• Rust Python or C# experience.
• Familiarity with NoSQL systems.
• Exposure to cloud-native tools or open-source work.

What Defines Success In This Role

• Strong systems thinker who enjoys performance-focused coding.
• Values clean APIs and maintainable code.
• Collaborative clear communicator and comfortable owning complex work.