Senior Software Engineer, AI Ecosystem

Aerospike • Mountain View, CA

72d • $160,000 - $205,000

About The Position

Aerospike is seeking an autonomous software engineer to help make its distributed database an AI-first database. The role focuses on owning visible open-source projects, developing integrations across the AI ecosystem, and delivering clean, high-performance software for mission-critical applications. The engineer will build tooling for real-time AI workloads, optimize software for scalability and low latency, collaborate with customers and internal teams, and help shape the integration roadmap across client and server teams.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of hands-on software development experience in Go, Python, Java, Scala, C, or C++.
• Proven experience building integrations, API clients, software SDKs, or distributed systems tooling.
• Strong understanding of modern software architecture and container environments such as Kubernetes and Docker.
• Experience building resilient, automated software.
• High autonomy, strong initiative, and a commitment to engineering excellence with minimal supervision.

Nice To Haves

• Hands-on experience with NoSQL or vector databases.
• Active contributions to open-source communities.

Responsibilities

• Design, architect, and deliver open-source tools and integrations connecting Aerospike to modern AI/ML frameworks.
• Refine software for extreme scalability, ultra-low latency, and production efficiency.
• Work with customers, product leaders, and solutions architects to turn real-world requirements into production-ready software.
• Partner across client and server teams to shape features for real-time AI workloads.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed