Engineering Director, Cloud Platform & Developer Experience

Aerospike; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 272,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

Aerospike is seeking a Director of Engineering to own the vision, architecture, and execution for the Aerospike Cloud Platform. You will lead an engineering organization across UI, APIs, monetization, and telemetry, partnering with executives to shape a scalable, multi-cloud, multi-tenant service.

Based in the Bay Area, you will mentor managers and technical leads, drive high-velocity delivery, and ensure production reliability with tight SLAs.

Qualifications

• 10+ years scaling customer-facing SaaS, PaaS, or cloud infrastructure platforms at high velocity.
• 4+ years of progressive engineering leadership experience, including managing managers and leaders.
• Deep expertise in architecting cloud monetization engines (metered billing, marketplace integrations) and telemetry platforms.
• Hands-on capability with modern web stacks (React, TypeScript), scalable API design (REST, GraphQL), and cloud-native infrastructure (Kubernetes, Go, multi-cloud).
• Executive presence and business acumen to connect architecture with revenue strategy and product execution.
• Operational ownership of high-availability, mission-critical production systems.

Responsibilities

• Build & scale a world-class org of engineering managers, leads, and full-stack engineers to accelerate delivery.
• Define the multi-year vision for developer consoles, APIs, and user workflows to ensure fast, friction-free experiences.
• Architect core systems for billing, usage, and multi-cloud marketplace integrations.
• Drive telemetry and observability strategies turning billions of events into actionable insights.
• Lead architectural direction for microservices, API design, and modern frontend systems.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Communication

Executive presence

Tools

Kubernetes

Go

Node.js

React

TypeScript

REST

GraphQL

OpenTelemetry

Datadog

Prometheus

Job description

Aerospike is seeking a Director of Engineering to own the vision, architecture, and execution for the Aerospike Cloud Platform. You will lead an engineering organization across UI, APIs, monetization, and telemetry, partnering with executives to shape a scalable, multi-cloud, multi-tenant service.

Based in the Bay Area, you will mentor managers and technical leads, drive high-velocity delivery, and ensure production reliability with tight SLAs.