Senior Engineering Manager, Control Plane

Aerospike, Inc.; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Aerospike, Inc. in Mountain View, CA, is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Cloud Platform team, responsible for the multi-cloud, multi-tenant offering. You will drive architecture, oversee delivery, and mentor frontend and backend engineers.

You’ll partner with product, design, and backend teams to deliver performant, reliable user experiences at scale, guiding technical decisions and contributing to API/services evolution in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 5–10+ years of experience building and shipping customer-facing applications.
• 1–3+ years of experience leading or managing engineers (formal or informal).
• Strong hands-on experience with modern microservice technologies (Kubernetes, Go, OpenAPI, Temporal, React).
• Proven ability to deliver high-quality customer services in production environments.
• Experience translating product requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Solid understanding of performance, security, and scalability in microservice ecosystems.
• Experience working with at least one cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Familiarity with API design and integration.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work across functions.
• Experience supporting production systems and on-call in a 24x7x365 environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and grow a team of frontend and backend engineers, creating a high-performing and inclusive environment.
• Drive execution against the platform technical roadmap with clarity and prioritization.
• Partner with product and design to translate business needs into clear technical plans and quality UI/API.
• Stay close to the code: contribute to architecture and raise the technical bar.
• Own the control plane architecture for the Cloud Platform focusing on performance and reliability.
• Collaborate with other teams to define APIs and services for product delivery.
• Ensure strong engineering practices: testing, observability, CI/CD, and operations.
• Establish and track meaningful product and user experience metrics.
• Support production systems, including on-call rotations when needed.
• Hire and develop top engineering talent and promote mentorship.

Skills

Leadership experience

Microservice stack

Kubernetes

Go

OpenAPI

React

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

API design

Cross-functional collaboration

On-call production support

Performance & scalability

Job description

Senior Engineering Manager, Control Plane

Aerospike, Inc. Mountain View, California, United States

About this position

Aerospike is thereal-time databasefor mission-critical use cases and workloads, including machine learning, generative, and agentic AI. Aerospike powers millions of transactions per second with millisecond latency, at a fraction of the total cost of ownership compared to other databases.

Global leaders, including Adobe, Airtel, Barclays, Criteo, DBS Bank, Experian, Grab, HDFC Bank, PayPal, Sony Interactive Entertainment, The Trade Desk, and Wayfair, rely on Aerospike for customer 360, fraud detection, real-time bidding, profile stores, recommendation engines, and other use cases.

At Aerospike, we dream big and deliver even bigger. Our mission is to unleash the power of the world’s real-time data with a database built for infinite scale, speed, and sustainability.

If you’re ready to shape the future of data, join us.

We’re looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a team building the Aerospike Cloud Platform — our multi-cloud, multi-tenant offering that brings the power of Aerospike to developers everywhere.

To foster strong team alignment and productivity, Bay Area–based team members are expected to work from the office 3 times per week—typically Tuesday through Thursday.

This is a hands‑on leadership role: you’ll guide and grow a team of frontend and backend engineers while staying close to architecture, product decisions, and execution. You’ll partner closely with product, design, and backend teams to deliver performant, reliable, and intuitive user experiences at scale.

What You’ll Do

• Lead, coach, and grow a team of frontend and backend engineers, creating a high‑performing and inclusive team environment.
• Drive execution against the platform technical roadmap, ensuring clarity, prioritization, and consistent delivery.
• Partner with product and design to translate business needs into clear technical plans and high-quality user experiences in both a UI and API.
• Stay close to the code: contribute to architecture, unblock engineers, and raise the technical bar across the team.
• Own the control plane architecture for the Cloud Platform, with a focus on performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to define and evolve APIs and services and deliver their product services on your platform.
• Ensure strong engineering practices: testing, observability, CI/CD, and operational excellence.
• Establish and track meaningful product and user experience metrics.
• Support production systems, including participating in on‑call rotations when needed.
• Hire and develop top engineering talent, and build a culture of mentorship and continuous improvement.

What We’re Looking For

• 5–10+ years of experience building and shipping customer‑facing applications
• 1–3+ years of experience leading or managing engineers (formal or informal leadership)
• Strong hands‑on experience with a broad but not exhaustive set of modern microservice technologies (Kubernetes, Go, OpenAPI, Temporal, React, etc.)
• Proven ability to deliver high-quality customer services in production environments
• Experience translating product requirements into scalable technical solutions
• Solid understanding of performance, security, and scalability in microservice ecosystesms
• Experience working with at least one cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Familiarity with API design and integration
• Strong communication skills and ability to work cross‑functionally
• Experience supporting production systems and on‑call in a 24x7x365 environment

Nice to Have

• Experience building and operating distributed systems (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
• Familiarity with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.)
• Experience with observability tools (Datadog or similar)
• Experience working with NoSQL databases

Aerospike is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing an environment free from discrimination on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non‑disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. Join us at Aerospike and be part of a dynamic team that is shaping the future of data management.

Salary Range for California Based Applicants: [$180,000 - $ 230,000] (actual compensation will be determined based on experience, location, and other factors permitted by law)

To keep our recruitment pipeline as high-performance as our database, Aerospike uses AI-driven tools to streamline resume reviews, scheduling, and communication. While we love smart tech, we value human connection even more. AI helps us optimize the process, but real people make 100% of the actual hiring decisions.