# Global Field CTO 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: Mid level
- Location: Remote (United States)
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $300K to $380K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-28
- Apply by: 2026-11-12
- Apply: https://ats.rippling.com/aerospike-inc/jobs/1e2f7f0d-2e35-4c10-a625-7e426e5fe0c4?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/aerospike-global-field-cto/

## About the role

The Global Field CTO reports to the Chief Revenue Officer because the role’s daily accountability is created in the market: strategic customer engagement, opportunity leadership, ecosystem development, and measurable commercial influence. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Significant executive-level experience in databases, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, data platforms, AI/ML infrastructure, or another technically demanding enterprise infrastructure category
- Demonstrated ability to advise CIOs, CTOs, chief architects, data and AI executives, and engineering leaders on consequential enterprise architecture decisions
- Deep understanding of production data systems, including performance, latency, distributed consistency, scale, resilience, security, operability, cloud economics, and total cost of ownership
- Credible understanding of modern AI architectures and the data, state, context, retrieval, decisioning, governance, and execution requirements surrounding production AI systems
- A record of influencing product direction through disciplined customer and market evidence while maintaining respect for product and engineering accountability
- Experience shaping and advancing technically complex enterprise opportunities, including competitive evaluations, executive alignment, partner participation, and architectural validation

Tags: Sales

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/aerospike-global-field-cto/