Senior Engineering Manager (Control Plane)

Role overview

Join Aerospike as a Senior Engineering Manager (Control Plane) to lead the development of the Aerospike Cloud Platform. This is a hands-on leadership role where you guide a team of frontend and backend engineers, drive execution against the platform technical roadmap, and ensure strong engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of frontend and backend engineers
• Drive delivery against the platform technical roadmap
• Collaborate with product and design to turn business needs into clear technical plans and high-quality user experiences
• Own the control plane architecture for the Cloud Platform, with a focus on performance, scalability, and reliability
• Support and improve production systems (including on-call responsibilities in a 24x7x365 environment)

Requirements

• Strong understanding of performance, security, and scalability in microservice ecosystems
• Proven ability to deliver customer-facing services in production
• Experience with at least one cloud platform: AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Ability to translate product requirements into scalable technical solutions
• Familiarity with API design and integration
• Strong cross-functional communication
• 1–3+ years of experience leading/managing engineers (formal or informal)
• Hands-on experience with modern microservice technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, Go, OpenAPI, Temporal, React)
• 5–10+ years building and shipping customer-facing applications
• Experience supporting production systems and on-call for 24x7x365
• Experience with NoSQL databases
• Experience with observability tools (e.g., Datadog)
• Familiarity with CI/CD (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
• Experience building and operating distributed systems (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)

Nice-to-haves

• Deeper experience across the stated microservice stack (OpenAPI/Temporal/React) and distributed systems operations