What are the responsibilities and job description for the Kubernetes Engineer position at Aerospike?
About Aerospike
At Aerospike, we dream big. Our focus is helping companies tackle seemingly insurmountable problems and doing what’s never been done before. That is why we developed the world's leading real-time data platform that powers mission-critical applications at the world's most innovative, category disrupting companies. Aerospike companies have deployed extreme scale real-time applications to fight fraud, dramatically increase shopping cart size, enable global digital payments, and deliver hyper-personalized user experiences to tens of millions of customers.
Customers like Airtel, Experian, Nielsen, PayPal, Snap, Verizon Media and Wayfair rely on Aerospike as the data foundation for the future to help them act in the microsecond moments that matter. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, Aerospike also has a global presence with offices in London, Bangalore and Tel Aviv.
At Aerospike, we’ve assembled a global team that combines practical expertise in building high-performance products using distributed systems engineering, cloud computing, networking, database and storage technology. Whatever their role, each Aerospiker combines an uncompromising mindset with an unwavering focus on executing in service of the mission and on behalf of our community.
We’re here for the long haul. Continually improving Aerospike takes time, energy, and the hard work of many people. Our business model allows us to continue to innovate in systems and data structures, to provide high grade support, and be here to help when our customers and users need it.
Job Summary
At Aerospike, we have developed a flexible distributed database with exceptional speed, low latencies, and the ability to easily scale from Gigabytes to Petabytes. This is a modern database optimized for the latest advancements in SSD and in-memory tech (such as Intel’s Optane persistent memory.)
A significant and growing share of Aerospike deployments are happening in the cloud, and we are looking for engineers with experience in modern operations (a background in DevOps and SRE), to help us create the tools necessary for making Aerospike a great cloud database. You will have an opportunity to continue working with new technologies and own/maintain highly visible open source projects. The code you produce must be high-quality and well-tested.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop and document Aerospike Cloud tools for automating deployment and operations in cloud and container-based environments
- Work with customers, product and solutions architecture teams to understand requirements
- Analyze and improve the efficiency, reliability, and scalability of the platform
Qualifications
- 3 years of hands-on coding experience (Go, Java, Scala, Python, C, C )
- Experience provisioning using Terraform, Ansible or cloud-specific APIs for AWS, GCP, etc
- Experience automating using tools like Ansible, Chef or Puppet
- Knowledge of container orchestration
- Proficiency with Kubernetes Operator a strong plus
- Experience with NoSQL databases a plus
- Self-starter that demonstrates initiative and ability to work independently with little supervision
- If available, please supply Git repos you have worked on, code examples, or questions you have answered (StackOverflow, etc)
Aerospike is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing an environment free from discrimination on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law.