Staff Performance Engineer: Real-Time DB Benchmarking

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

Job summary

Aerospike, Inc. in Mountain View, CA, is hiring a Staff Performance Engineer to characterize performance and reliability of its real-time database platform across server and client libraries. You will design workloads, establish baselines, detect regressions, and scale coverage with shared tooling.

The role is hands-on, involving benchmarking, debugging production-like clusters, and improving testing reliability at scale. Collaboration with QE, R&D, and customers is essential.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, running, and interpreting benchmarks or load tests for distributed systems or latency-sensitive platforms.
• Strong programming experience in systems-oriented languages (Java, C/C++, Go, Python).
• Solid understanding of database architecture, indexing, query processing, and performance tuning.
• Experience with observability tools and techniques (metrics dashboards, tracing/profiling, system monitoring).
• Experience with Linux/Unix environments and practical system administration for test/production-like systems.

Responsibilities

• Design workloads that stress and characterize system performance and reliability as experienced by customers.
• Run and evolve performance regression across bare-metal clusters and containerized test environments.
• Analyze and optimize server and client performance, including indexing and query execution.
• Integrate benchmark tooling into regression pipelines and CI/CD workflows.
• Collaborate with Product R&D to reflect performance requirements in development and release processes.
• Create and maintain documentation on benchmark methodology and best practices.
• Engage with customers to validate performance claims and translate field requirements into improvements.

Skills

Java

C/C++

Go

Python

Benchmarking

Distributed systems

Observability

Linux/Unix

IaC/CI-CD

Troubleshooting

Communication

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

eBPF

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Aerospike, Inc. in Mountain View, CA, is hiring a Staff Performance Engineer to characterize performance and reliability of its real-time database platform across server and client libraries. You will design workloads, establish baselines, detect regressions, and scale coverage with shared tooling.

The role is hands-on, involving benchmarking, debugging production-like clusters, and improving testing reliability at scale. Collaboration with QE, R&D, and customers is essential.