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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Principal Software Engineer, Cloud Product Experience - **Company:** Aerospike, Inc. - **Location:** Mountain View, CA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $260,000.0 - $320,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** OpenTofu, Java (Programming Language), Adobe Creative Cloud, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, C++ (Programming Language), Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Databases, Distributed Data Store, Distributed Systems, Fault Tolerance, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), NoSQL, Open Source Technology, Reliability Engineering, Cloud Services, Prometheus, Software Engineering, Database Engines, Workflow Management Systems, Alwayson, Rust (Programming Language), Aerospike, Data Storage Management, Google Cloud, Cloud Platform System, System Availability, Grafana, Multi-Cloud, Kubernetes, Low Latency, Terraform, Data Pipelines - **Published:** October 29, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/principal-software-engineer-cloud-product-experience-mountain-view-ca--088d10da-9e40-41a0-9820-2e46c04067a2 ## About the Role Software Engineering, Cloud Computing, Use Cases, Bidding, Adobe Product Family, Sustainability, Software Engineering, Architectural Services, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, * 10+ years of hands-on experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems and cloud platforms. * Proven Track Record: Experience acting in a Principal, Staff+, or Lead Architect capacity for a high-growth SaaS, IaaS, or database platform. * Deep Distributed Systems Expertise: Mastery of fault tolerance, consensus protocols, multi-tenant isolation, data partitioning, and consistency models. * Cloud-Native Systems Mastery: Deep expertise in Go (preferred) or other statically typed languages (Java, C++, Rust), alongside advanced Kubernetes internals and custom controller/operator development. * Multi-Cloud Architecture: Deep production experience across major public clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure) at massive scale. * Data & Storage Systems: Deep conceptual and practical understanding of NoSQL internals, access patterns, storage engine mechanics, and high-throughput data pipelines. * Operational & Reliability Excellence: Experience establishing SLOs/SLIs, designing robust self-healing systems, and leading chaos engineering or incident post-mortem practices., * Direct experience building Kubernetes Operators (e.g., Kubebuilder, Operator SDK) for stateful applications. * Experience with orchestration engines like Temporal. * Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, OpenTofu) and modern cloud-native observability stacks (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana). * Prior experience in database-as-a-service (DBaaS), infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), or low-latency systems. * Active contribution to relevant open-source projects in the cloud-native or distributed storage ecosystem. ## Description We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to serve as a technical authority and strategic architect for our Cloud Engineering organization. In this role, you will define the architectural vision and drive the execution of our next-generation, global multi-cloud SaaS platform. Your work will fundamentally shape how global enterprises deploy, operate, and scale Aerospike at extreme velocity and petabyte scale-pushing the absolute limits of real-time, always-on distributed systems. What You''ll Do * Architect at Enterprise Scale: Drive the multi-year technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for our multi-cloud SaaS platform, ensuring high availability, sub-millisecond efficiency, and seamless multi-tenancy. * Establish Engineering Standards: Set the bar for system design, security, reliability, operational excellence, and testing across the entire engineering organization. * Drive Technical Leadership & Strategy: Partner closely with executive stakeholders, product leadership, and principal architects to translate complex enterprise needs into scalable, resilient platform capabilities. * Force Multiply: Mentor and elevate senior and staff engineers, foster a culture of deep technical rigor, and guide distributed teams through complex technical tradeoffs. * Solve the Unsolved: Tackle the toughest performance, state management, orchestration, and topology challenges inherent in running real-time databases across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Key Responsibilities * Lead the architectural design and strategic execution of complex cloud-native control planes, data planes, and underlying microservice ecosystems. * Design for extreme scale: optimize distributed runtime environments, auto-scaling mechanisms, cross-region replication, and stateful workload orchestration. * Author critical platform primitives, framework standards, and foundational code while reviewing high-impact designs across teams. * Serve as a primary escalation point for critical architectural risks, systemic performance bottlenecks, and high-severity platform outages. * Influence platform ecosystem strategy, including Kubernetes operator patterns, infrastructure-as-code automation, and workflow orchestration.