Aerospike - Backend / SDK Engineer, Growth Infrastructure

Back-End Developer is needed in United States.

Client: Aerospike

Location: Remote

Contract: undefined

Job Description

Aerospike is the real-time database for mission-critical use cases and workloads, such as machine learning, generative, and agentic AI, powering 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 various use cases, including customer 360, fraud detection, real-time bidding, and recommendation engines.

This role involves building the backend services and developer-facing SDKs that drive Aerospike’s growth platform, ensuring reliable flow of product usage, licensing, and adoption signals across self-managed and cloud deployments.

Responsibilities

• Build scalable telemetry ingestion pipelines (API-first, Pub/Sub/Kafka optional, warehouse targets like BigQuery or Snowflake).
• Design and maintain licensing services for usage metering, entitlement APIs, high-watermark billing logic, and token/UUID validation.
• Develop and maintain developer-facing SDKs (Go, Java, Python, Node) and CLI tools for telemetry, feature flags, and license validation.
• Define schemas, thresholds, and event models aligned with licensing enforcement and adoption signals.
• Collaborate with PMs, RevOps, and CS on system health metrics, billing workflows, and customer-facing usage reporting.
• Ensure SDKs integrate with CDPs (Segment, RudderStack, Posthog) and internal telemetry pipelines (BigQuery, Snowflake, dbt).
• Maintain schema compatibility and versioning across services and SDKs.
• Support production services in a 24x7 on-call rotation, driving reliability and incident response.
• Build with scalability, maintainability, reliability, and security as core principles.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of backend or SDK engineering experience (Go preferred; Java/Python also fine).
• Strong background in distributed systems, event-driven pipelines, or observability services.
• Experience building developer-facing SDKs, CLIs, or platform APIs.
• Familiarity with data warehouses (BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift) and ETL/CDC patterns.
• Experience supporting production systems in a high-availability environment.
• Preferred: Familiarity with Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty.
• Preferred: Background in hybrid SaaS/on-premises deployments and developer experience tooling.

Additional Information

Aerospike is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing an environment free from discrimination based on race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, national origin, veteran status, or other legally protected bases. Salary Range for California Based Applicants: [$133,700 - $173,810] (actual compensation will be determined based on experience, location, and other factors permitted by law).