Quality Engineer

About Aerospike

At Aerospike, we dream big. Our focus is helping companies tackle seemingly insurmountable problems and doing what’s never been done before. That is why we developed the world's leading real-time data platform that powers mission-critical applications at the world's most innovative, category disrupting companies.  Aerospike companies have deployed extreme scale real-time applications to fight fraud, dramatically increase shopping cart size, enable global digital payments, and deliver hyper-personalized user experiences to tens of millions of customers.

Customers like Airtel, Experian, Nielsen, PayPal, Snap, Verizon Media and Wayfair rely on Aerospike as the data foundation for the future to help them act in the microsecond moments that matter. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, Aerospike also has a global presence with offices in London, Bangalore and Tel Aviv.

We are looking for extraordinary engineers with a passion for hard-core software development. As an Infrastructure Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and implementing major components of our highly reliable and automated networked software services infrastructure that pushes the limits of Aerospike. You will need to use your understanding of databases, distributed systems, networking, and operating systems to develop this infrastructure.

Your team will be responsible for designing and implementing automated infrastructure using Linux, Docker, VMware, Virtual Box, Virtual Machines, and cloud hosting providers. The infrastructure you develop and maintain will empower our software development teams via automating the build, test, and release process. Your job is to accelerate product development by helping your teammates help themselves. Infrastructure Engineers at Aerospike are focused on automating the most reliable, high performance, distributed database available.

Responsibilities:

Create and execute client/server clusters of Aerospike products using automated methods.
Develop and improve build and release infrastructure.
Ensure release engineers are able to easily build, test, and release software on the automated system.
Collaborate with software and support engineers to deploy Aerospike clusters to reproduce and root-cause analyze problems reported from the field.
Guide other software developers in developing modules and services to run within our automated infrastructure.
Analyze and decompose complex infrastructure architecture specifications and design strategies to implement, deploy, and maintain these systems.
Monitor and analyze problems in our infrastructure, then work together with other software engineers to diagnose and resolve any issues.

Minimum Qualifications:

3-8 years of software development experience.
Ability to analyze system requirements and develop an end-to-end infrastructure meeting them.
Extensive knowledge of UNIX/Linux environments, including RedHat, Debian, and Ubuntu.
Programming skills in one or more languages, including C, Go, Java or Python.
Facility with distributed source code control systems such as Git.
Scripting skills in Python, Perl, or Shell.
Strong communication and documentation skills.
Understanding of operating system concepts, database fundamentals, networking, and/or distributed systems.
Flexible, ‘do what needs to be done’ attitude.
Bachelors in Engineering or Computer Science.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with virtualization, containerization, and/or cloud-based infrastructure.
Experience with using and/or developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
Experience with SQL RDBMS and/or NoSQL Databases.
Experience with infrastructure automation tools and frameworks, such as Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.
Experience with Docker and/or Kubernetes.
Experience with Wireshark, Ethereal, or other network traffic analysis packages.
Knowledge of networking protocols, including TCP/IP, UDP, ARP, HTTP, and SSL/TLS.
Experience with network security concepts, techniques, and technologies.
Masters in Engineering or Computer Science.

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.