Staff Software Engineer - Client Engineering at Aerospike
Bengaluru, karnataka, India -
Full Time


Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

17 Mar, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

17 Dec, 25

Experience

10 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

No

Skills

Java, Go, Concurrency, Networking, Distributed Systems, SDKs, Mentoring, Rust, Python, C#, NoSQL, Cloud-native, Open-source, Performance, API Usability, Code Quality, Reliability

Industry

Software Development

Description
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 Aerospike’s Smart Client Libraries — intelligent, high-performance software used by every Aerospike customer application.These 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 Aerospike’s 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 You’ll 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.
Responsibilities
The Staff Engineer will build and optimize Smart Client Libraries and own key client-server communication components. They will also mentor team members and work with global engineering teams to deliver stable client releases.
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