Senior Engineering Manager, Cloud Product Experience in Mountain View, California at Aerospike, Inc.

Aerospike is the real-time database for 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 the team building the product experience for Aerospike Cloud—our multi-cloud, fully managed database service.

This team owns the surfaces and systems customers use to interact with the cloud: the console and APIs, billing and licensing, usage and telemetry, and the workflows that make Aerospike Cloud intuitive and easy to operate.

You’ll lead, hire, and grow a team of frontend and full-stack engineers while owning the technical direction and execution of these product areas. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who enjoys working at the intersection of product and infrastructure and staying close to architecture, product decisions, and production execution.

Bay Area–based team members work from the office three days per week, typically Tuesday through Thursday.

What You’ll Do

• 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.

• 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.

• Experience building a developer console, admin portal, or control plane for a database, cloud, or infrastructure product.
• Experience with billing, usage metering, licensing, or entitlements.
• Experience building customer-facing metrics, telemetry, or observability experiences.
• Familiarity with OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Prometheus, or Grafana.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Go, Node.js, or Temporal.
• Familiarity with distributed systems or high-scale databases.

Salary Range: $250,000 – $310,000
(Actual compensation will be based on experience, location, and other relevant factors.)

Aerospike is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to an environment free from discrimination based on race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, or veteran status.

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.