Senior Director Of Engineering
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17 hours ago
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Job Summary
Aerospike is the real-time database for mission-critical workloads powering millions of transactions per second with sub-millisecond latency and dramatically lower total cost of ownership. Global innovators such as 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 machine learning and agentic AI.
Our mission is to unleash the worlds real-time data with a database built for infinite scale speed and sustainability. If youre ready to shape the future of data infrastructure join us.
Hybrid: 23 days/week in office
Role Summary
We are seeking an accomplished Senior Director of Engineering to lead and scale Aerospikes India Engineering organization. You will own multiple product lines translate strategy into execution guide technical direction and develop high-performing engineering leaders. This role represents India Engineering in global forums and ensures we deliver robust scalable and impactful products.
Key Responsibilities
Engineering & Delivery
- Own delivery of major product areas/platforms driving roadmap execution quality reliability and predictable releases.
- Translate company strategy into actionable engineering plans staffing models and quarterly/annual execution.
- Improve engineering velocity consistency and technical rigor across teams.
Technical Strategy
- Provide architectural direction and technical oversight for core product areas.
- Champion performance scalability security-by-design and resiliency across systems.
- Lead modernization and long-term platform investments while managing technical debt.
- Guide design reviews postmortems and deep technical discussions without becoming a bottleneck.
India Site Leadership
- Serve as the senior engineering leader for India and represent the site in global leadership forums.
- Build a culture of ownership urgency and customer impact while managing budgets headcount and vendor/tools grow and retain top talent; coach and develop Engineering Managers/Senior Managers.
- Partner closely with teams across the US EMEA and APAC to ensure seamless cross-geo execution.
Cross-Functional Influence
- Collaborate with Product Design and GTM to drive aligned business outcomes.
- Influence priorities across time zones and functions resolving tradeoffs effectively.
- Communicate crisply at the executive level with clear written async and verbal updates.
Required Experience
Leadership
- 10 years in engineering including 710 years of engineering management.
- Experience managing multiple managers and leading organizations of 35 engineers.
- Proven ownership of large product/platform areas with measurable customer or business impact.
- Extensive experience with India-based engineering orgs and distributed global teams.
- Strong understanding of India tech hiring retention and leadership development.
- Experience managing budgets org planning and scaling teams.
Technical Leadership
- Proven experience in implementing database engines.
- Strong technical grounding in distributed systems cloud computing or related architectures.
Communication & Influence
- Executive-level communication skills (written async and verbal).
- Ability to influence and align stakeholders across continents and functions.
- Strong track record working with cross-geo teams across multiple regions.
Bonus Skills (Good to Have)
- Experience with implementing databases storage engines or distributed systems.
- Ability to participate in and guide design and architecture reviews.
- Deep understanding of cloud-native architectures and DevOps practices.
- Expertise in performance and scalability engineering.
- Expertise in systems built for high availability low latency and massive throughput.
Required Experience:
Exec
Key Skills
- Go
- Lean
- Management Experience
- React
- Node.js
- Operations Management
- Project Management
- Research & Development
- Software Development
- Team Management
- GraphQL
- Leadership Experience
About Company
Aerospike is the real-time database for AI, trusted in the world's most demanding environments. Consistent, available, and cost-efficient at any scale.
