Platform Architect

Platform Architect

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. 

Our customers 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, Wayfair, and many others rely on Aerospike as the data foundation for the future to help them act in the microsecond moments that matter. Aerospike is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and has a global presence with offices in London, Bangalore, and Tel Aviv. 

 As Platform Architect you will be essential to building the foundation for Aerospike’s engineering platform. By aligning engineers on common tools, practices, and operational standards, this role will significantly impact key performance metrics and enhance the organization’s ability to scale while maintaining operational excellence. This investment will yield long-term benefits by improving the speed, reliability, and quality of Aerospike’s software delivery process.

Key Objectives

The Platform Architect will focus on the following key areas:

• Standardization of Engineering Practices: Define and implement common engineering standards across teams to ensure consistency and efficiency in the software development lifecycle.
• Operational Maturity Model: Develop and oversee the adoption of an operational maturity model, defining  engineering and operating standards aligned with the product development lifecycle, ensuring all teams and products have clear expectations for advancing software through the PDLC.  
• Technology Stack Alignment: Define the technology stack for the engineering platform to streamline tooling and services, promoting collaboration, reusability, and simplification.
• Enhanced System and Product Metrics: Guide teams in defining and instrumenting metrics to proactively detect and resolve issues, reducing the impact on customers.

Skills

• Expertise managing public cloud infra (AWS, GCP, Azure) a must; hardware/on prem a bonus
• Systems: demonstrated network, storage, Linux expertise
• Languages: (1 or more) Python, Go, Java, C; Python is a must, secondary languages are bonus
• Experience with developer tooling: IDEs (eg Visual Studio), source control (eg Github), CICD (eg Circle, Jenkins, Git Actions, Argo, etc)
• Observability - Datadog, Honeycomb, New Relic or similar (significant experience w/logging, metrics, tracing
• Scripting: bash, shell, et al
• Exemplary written and verbal communication; ability to effectively communicate to audiences from interns to boards of directors
• Able to lead without authority, influence stakeholders at all levels

Experience

• 10-15 years of experience in software engineering, devops, or SRE; 5+ years as a tech lead or architect required
• 3-5 years as a manager in one of the above disciplines is bonus
• Ideal candidate has experience with startups through scaling companies and/or large enterprises

Education

• Bachelors of CS, EE or similar preferred (not required), MS in CS, EE or equivalent bonus

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: [$230,000 - $250,000] (actual compensation will be determined based on experience, location, and other factors permitted by law).

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