# Staff Performance Engineer 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: Senior
- Location: Mountain View, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $180K to $230K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-18
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://ats.rippling.com/aerospike-inc/jobs/5e2baafa-270b-41d3-8907-aa1b2a5fd6aa
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/aerospike-staff-performance-engineer/

## About the role

We are seeking a highly skilled Staff Performance Engineer to join our Quality Engineering team. In this role, you will characterize the performance and reliability of Aerospike's database platform, with primary focus on the server and client libraries, and contribute across other product areas as needed.

## What they're looking for

- Design workloads that stress and characterize system performance and reliability as experienced by customers
- Run and evolve performance regression as a pre-release quality gate across dedicated bare-metal clusters and remote containerized test environments, selecting the right environment for each workload
- Analyze and optimize server and client performance, including indexing, query execution, data access paths, and client/server interaction
- Integrate benchmark and cluster tooling into regular regression pipelines, expand automated nightly and pre-release gates, and prioritize high-value coverage additions
- Collaborate with Product R&D to ensure performance and reliability requirements are reflected in development and release processes
- Create and maintain documentation on benchmark methodology, baseline management, environment setup, and performance best practices

Tags: Engineering