Senior Cloud Platform Architect (Multi-Cloud SaaS)

Aerospike, Inc.; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Aerospike, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead architectural vision for our Cloud platform, shaping multi-cloud, multi-tenant services. You will drive scale, reliability, and security while mentoring engineers and aligning with product leadership to deliver robust roadmaps and container orchestration innovations.

This role demands deep distributed systems expertise and a proven track record of building enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure in fast-moving environments.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building production distributed backend systems with staff/lead leadership.
• Distributed database expertise across MongoDB, Redis, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, DynamoDB, or Aerospike.
• Deep understanding of NoSQL vs Relational models and caching strategies.
• Automated lifecycle management: cluster provisioning, zero-downtime upgrades, backups, DR, cross-region replication.
• Scalability & high availability: sharding, read/write splitting, replication, rebalancing.
• Go preferred; backend infra design in statically typed languages.
• Cloud & orchestration across AWS, GCP, Azure; Kubernetes Operators/Controllers.
• Security & compliance: OAuth, OIDC, mTLS, encryption at rest/in transit.
• System design leadership: decomposing problems, stakeholder negotiation, clear communication.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end architecture and system design for large-scale multi-cloud platform services.
• Define multi-year Cloud technology roadmap with product leadership.
• Author RFCs and design docs; lead architecture reviews.
• Debug, profile, and resolve distributed systems issues (networking, consistency, multi-tenancy).
• Establish observability, HA, security, and operational excellence across microservices.
• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers through code reviews and guidance.

Skills

Distributed backend systems

Staff/Lead leadership

NoSQL databases

Data architecture & trade-offs

Lifecycle automation

Scalability & HA

Go

Kubernetes & cloud

Security & compliance

System design leadership

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

OpenTofu

ArgoCD

GitOps

Job description

Aerospike, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead architectural vision for our Cloud platform, shaping multi-cloud, multi-tenant services. You will drive scale, reliability, and security while mentoring engineers and aligning with product leadership to deliver robust roadmaps and container orchestration innovations.

This role demands deep distributed systems expertise and a proven track record of building enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure in fast-moving environments.