Staff Site Reliability Engineer

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.

As a Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Aerospike, you’ll be a technical leader within our global SRE organization, helping drive reliability, performance, and scalability across our hybrid and multi-cloud environments. You’ll bring deep operational experience and lead by example—mentoring others, designing resilient systems, and championing modern SRE practices across new and legacy platforms.

You’ll play a key role in shaping the direction of our infrastructure initiatives, from Kubernetes-based platforms like AKS and the Aerospike Kubernetes Operator to existing services in AWS and GCP. Your impact will span teams and systems as you solve complex problems, influence architecture, and foster a culture of ownership, resilience, and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across multiple systems and environments, proactively identifying risks, shaping architecture decisions, and improving reliability and performance at scale.
• Lead key infrastructure efforts including Kubernetes platform expansion (AKS, AKO), and application of SRE principles to legacy systems and new cloud offerings.
• Define, measure, and enforce reliability standards through SLIs/SLOs, observability tooling, and incident response frameworks.
• Mentor and guide other SREs by leading design sessions, conducting technical deep dives, and reviewing code, configurations, and infrastructure decisions.
• Partner with product, engineering, and cloud teams to align reliability goals with delivery objectives.
• Lead root cause analyses and implement systemic fixes for issues spanning multiple platforms or services.
• Drive automation-first approaches using IaC, CI/CD pipelines, and scripting to reduce toil and increase deployment confidence.
• Influence cross-functional roadmaps, identifying areas for innovation, technical debt reduction, and long-term scalability.
• Participate in the global on-call rotation, bringing senior-level calm and clarity during incidents and escalations.

Required Experience

• 8+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering, including significant time operating production systems at scale.
• Deep hands-on experience with at least one major public cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure), and working knowledge of the others; Azure experience is a plus.
• Production experience with Kubernetes, including operating clusters, Helm, operators, and supporting microservices in real-world environments.
• Strong proficiency in infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform and CI/CD automation platforms.
• Expertise in observability tools and practices (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc.) and using them to define SLIs and SLOs.; DataDog experience is a plus
• Programming and scripting ability in one or more languages (Python, Go, Bash, etc.).
• Experience with large-scale incident response and post-incident review practices.
• Proven ability to mentor other engineers and influence technical strategy across multiple teams.
• Strong communication skills to articulate complex concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Skills and Qualifications

• Hands-on experience managing and optimizing database deployments and services in production environments, ensuring high availability and performance.
• Familiarity with Aerospike or other distributed databases is a plus.
• Kubernetes or cloud certifications (CKA, CKS, AWS/GCP DevOps/Architect) a plus but not require
• Track record of influencing architectural decisions across teams or domains.

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.