# Director of Engineering, Cloud Product Engineering at Aerospike

- Company: Aerospike
- What the company does: Aerospike is the real-time database for mission-critical use cases and workloads, including machine learning, generative, and agentic AI. Backed by NEA.
- Company website: https://aerospike.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Mountain View, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $272K to $350K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-26
- Apply by: 2026-10-10
- Apply: https://ats.rippling.com/aerospike-inc/jobs/7f788866-7cc7-4dce-89f8-9d075f6c26b5
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/aerospike-director-of-engineering-cloud-product-engineering/

## About the role

Aerospike is powering the next generation of real-time, massive-scale applications—and we need an exceptional Director of Engineering to build the gateway to it all. You will own the vision, architecture, and execution for how thousands of developers and enterprise teams interact with, pay for, and observe the Aerospike Cloud Platform.

## What they're looking for

- Revolutionize the Customer Experience: Define the multi-year vision for our developer consoles, APIs, and user-facing workflows—ensuring every interaction with Aerospike Cloud is fast, friction-free, and delightful
- Architect the Core Business Engine (BLT):
- Monetization & Usage: Spearhead the architectural evolution of our high-volume billing engines, real-time usage tracking, and multi-cloud marketplace integrations (AWS, GCP, Azure, Stripe)
- Licensing & Entitlements: Build bulletproof, multi-tenant entitlement systems and feature-gating frameworks designed for global enterprise scale
- Telemetry & Observability: Drive the strategy for deep, real-time observability (metrics, logs, traces) that turns billions of platform events into actionable insights for both our engineers and customers
- Drive Technical Excellence: Serve as the ultimate bar-raiser for microservices architecture, API design, and modern frontend systems. Keep the tech stack cutting-edge while eliminating complexity

Tags: Engineering