Senior Cloud Product Experience Leader

Aerospike; Mountain View, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 250,000 - 310,000; Full time

Job summary

Aerospike in Mountain View seeks a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the team building Aerospike Cloud, our multi-cloud, fully managed database service. You’ll own the console and APIs, billing and licensing, usage telemetry, and the workflows that make Aerospike Cloud intuitive and easy to operate.

You’ll hire, coach, and grow frontend and full‑stack engineers while shaping the technical direction and production execution.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years managing engineering teams.
• Proven experience hiring, coaching, and developing engineers and building high‑performing teams.
• Strong technical background in frontend or full‑stack engineering, ideally with React, TypeScript, APIs, and cloud‑native services.
• Experience leading teams building customer‑facing SaaS, developer platforms, cloud consoles, or infrastructure products.
• Demonstrated ability to stay close to architecture and technical decisions while giving engineers clear ownership.
• Strong product instincts and experience partnering closely with Product and Design.
• Experience working across organizational boundaries and translating complex business and technical requirements into an executable roadmap.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure and modern cloud‑native environments.
• Experience operating production systems where reliability, correctness, and operational ownership matter.

Responsibilities

• Own the Cloud product experience. Lead engineering for the console, APIs, and workflows customers use to provision, manage, and understand Aerospike Cloud.
• Lead and grow the team. Hire, coach, and develop frontend and full‑stack engineers while building a strong culture of ownership and execution.
• Build the systems behind the experience. Own capabilities spanning usage metering, billing, licensing and entitlements, and customer‑facing telemetry.
• Set the technical direction. Stay close to architecture and code, make pragmatic technology choices, and maintain a high engineering bar across frontend, APIs, and services.
• Make the Cloud observable. Give customers clear visibility into database health, performance, usage, and cost.
• Ship across boundaries. Partner closely with Product, Design, Finance, and Control Plane teams to turn complex infrastructure capabilities into simple product experiences.
• Own what you ship. Establish reliability and product metrics and ensure the team’s services operate well in production.

Skills

Leadership

Frontend engineering

Full-stack engineering

Cloud-native services

Architecture

Product collaboration

Tools

React

TypeScript

APIs

AWS

GCP

Azure

Kubernetes

Docker

Go

Node.js

Job description

Aerospike in Mountain View seeks a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the team building Aerospike Cloud, our multi-cloud, fully managed database service. You’ll own the console and APIs, billing and licensing, usage telemetry, and the workflows that make Aerospike Cloud intuitive and easy to operate.

You’ll hire, coach, and grow frontend and full‑stack engineers while shaping the technical direction and production execution.