Senior Backend / SDK Engineer, Growth Infrastructure New Remote, USA

Remote, USA

Aerospike is thereal-time databaseformission-critical use cases and workloads, includingmachine 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, includingAdobe, Airtel, Barclays, Criteo, DBS Bank, Experian, Grab, HDFC Bank, PayPal, Sony Interactive Entertainment, The Trade Desk, and Wayfair,rely on Aerospike forcustomer 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 worlds 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.

Youll build the backend services and developer-facing SDKs that power Aerospikes growth platform from telemetry ingestion and licensing enforcement to entitlement APIs and developer tooling. This role sits at the heart of Aerospikes infrastructure, ensuring that product usage, licensing, and adoption signals flow reliably 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

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. Join us at Aerospike and be part of a dynamic team that is shaping the future of data management. 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)

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