As a Principal Software Engineer at Aerospike, you will serve as a technical authority for the company’s most critical systems and platform architecture. You will define and evolve the long-term technical direction of Aerospike’s high-performance, low-latency distributed database, balancing near-term delivery with multi-year scalability, reliability, and performance goals.

This role operates at the intersection of deep technical expertise and organizational influence. You will lead through vision, design excellence, and mentorship—setting architectural standards, resolving the most complex cross-cutting systems challenges, and aligning engineering execution with Aerospike’s product and business strategy. While you may engage with kernel, filesystem, or hardware-level concerns, your impact comes from shaping systems design across teams rather than owning a single component.

Responsibilities

Define and drive the long-term architecture of Aerospike’s core systems, particularly in networking, storage, low-level I/O, and hardware interaction.




Serve as a technical authority and escalation point for the most complex and high-impact systems and performance issues.
Lead cross-team technical initiatives that span multiple subsystems and engineering groups.
Establish architectural principles, performance standards, and design best practices across the organization.
Influence roadmap decisions by translating business and customer requirements into durable technical strategies.
Guide and review designs for performance-critical systems, ensuring consistency, correctness, and scalability.
Mentor Staff and Senior Staff engineers, developing technical leaders and raising the overall systems engineering bar.
Represent systems architecture internally and, when appropriate, with customers, partners, or the open-source community.
Benchmarking Leadership: This role specifically owns the end-to-end benchmarking strategy to prove Aerospike’s performance value (throughput, latency, and T

📌 Principal Software Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Aerospike
📍 Bengaluru