Performance Engineer, Scalable DB Benchmarks & Reliability

Aerospike; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Aerospike is seeking a Staff Performance Engineer to join the Quality Engineering team in Mountain View to characterize performance and reliability of the Aerospike database platform, focusing on server and client libraries and extending to other product areas as needed.

You will design workloads, establish baselines, detect regressions before release, and scale coverage across builds, hardware profiles, and configurations.

Qualifications

• Strong programming experience in Java, C/C++, Go, or Python.
• Experience designing, running, and interpreting benchmarks for distributed systems or latency-sensitive platforms.
• Solid understanding of database architecture, indexing, query processing, and performance tuning.
• Experience with observability tools and techniques (Prometheus/Grafana, tracing/profiling, system monitoring).
• Experience with Linux/Unix environments and practical system administration for test/production-like systems.
• Experience automating test or deployment environments using IaC and container/orchestration tools (Ansible, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes).
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex performance problems across app, DB, network, storage, and hardware layers.
• Strong analytical and written/verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design workloads that stress and characterize system performance and reliability as experienced by customers.
• Run and evolve performance regression as a pre-release quality gate across dedicated clusters and test environments.
• Analyze and optimize server and client performance, including indexing, query execution, data access paths, and client/server interaction.
• Integrate benchmark and cluster tooling into regression pipelines and CI/CD.
• Collaborate with Product R&D to ensure performance requirements are reflected in development and release processes.
• Create and maintain documentation on benchmark methodology, baseline management, and environment setup.
• Engage with customers to understand deployment patterns and validate performance claims.
• Stay current with industry trends in database performance, observability, and test automation.

Skills

Java

C/C++

Go

Python

Benchmarking

Distributed systems

DB architecture

Indexing

Query processing

Performance tuning

Observability

Prometheus Grafana

eBPF

Linux/Unix

Infrastructure as code

Ansible

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Root cause analysis

Communication

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Ansible

Terraform

Job description

Aerospike is seeking a Staff Performance Engineer to join the Quality Engineering team in Mountain View to characterize performance and reliability of the Aerospike database platform, focusing on server and client libraries and extending to other product areas as needed.

You will design workloads, establish baselines, detect regressions before release, and scale coverage across builds, hardware profiles, and configurations.