Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Job Summary

Embedding directly with customer engineering teams, the full-time Senior Forward Deployed Engineer will build and ship real-time systems, integrating Aerospike with enterprise data systems and AI frameworks while writing production-ready code and validating performance under real production workloads.

Key responsibilities

• Embed with customer teams to translate operational challenges into technical designs and integration plans
• Write and integrate scalable production code across Aerospike and enterprise data systems
• Validate production readiness by debugging distributed systems issues and ensuring reliability under high traffic

Required qualifications

• 5-8+ years of hands-on software development experience with backend services or distributed systems
• Proficiency in at least one modern systems or backend language such as Go, Java, Python, or C/C++
• Experience with low-latency key-value stores, distributed databases, or streaming data platforms
• Hands-on experience with services that interface with LLMs or vector databases
• Knowledge of implementing authentication/authorization and auditable logging in sensitive environments