Cloud Platform Engineering Manager

Aerospike is the real-time database for mission-critical workloads including machine learning generative AI and agentic AI. Aerospike powers millions of transactions per second with millisecond latency at a fraction of the total cost of ownership compared to other databases. Global leaders rely on Aerospike for fraud detection customer 360 recommendation engines real-time bidding and other demanding use cases.

At Aerospike we dream big and deliver even bigger. Our mission is to unleash the power of the worlds real-time data with a database built for infinite scale speed and sustainability. If youre ready to shape the future of data join us.

Were 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: youll guide and grow a team of frontend and backend engineers while staying close to architecture product decisions and execution. Youll partner closely with product design and backend teams to deliver performant reliable and intuitive user experiences at scale.

What Youll Do

• Lead 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 Were Looking For

• 510 years of experience building and shipping customer-facing applications
• 13 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 environments
• Experience translating product requirements into scalable technical solutions
• Solid understanding of performance security and scalability in microservice ecosystesms
• Experience working with at least one cloud platform (AWS GCP or Azure)
• Familiarity with API design and integration
• Strong communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally
• Experience supporting production systems and on-call in a 24x7x365 environment

Nice to Have

• Experience 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 databases

Why This Role

This is an opportunity to step into a true ownership role shaping both the product experience and the team that builds it. Youll have a direct impact on how developers interact with Aerospike in the cloud while helping grow a strong thoughtful engineering culture.

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. Join us at Aerospike and be part of a dynamic team that is shaping the future of data management. Salary Range for California Based Applicants: $180000 - $230000 (actual compensation will be determined based on experience location and other factors permitted by law)