Job Description
Aerospike is the real-time database for mission-critical use cases and workloads, including machine learning, generative, 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, including 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, profile stores, recommendation engines, and other use cases.
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.
If you’re ready to shape the future of data, join us.
I n 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 in Rust - required
- 1+ years of hands-on coding experience in another language (any of C, Java, Golang, C#, Python) - strong plus
- 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.
