Real-time NoSQL database for transaction-heavy, latency-critical workloads
Aerospike operates a distributed NoSQL database optimized for sub-millisecond latency at transaction scale. The tech stack reveals a mature observability posture—Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, New Relic, OpenTelemetry, and Jaeger all in active use—paired with heavy containerization (Kubernetes, Docker) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible). The hiring velocity is accelerating with a sales-led org structure (13 sales roles vs. 10 engineering), and active projects cluster around Kubernetes operator development and cluster lifecycle automation, suggesting a strategic shift toward cloud-native deployments and reduced operational friction for customers running distributed infrastructure.
Notable leadership hires: Director of Engineering
Aerospike is a real-time database purpose-built for mission-critical workloads requiring millisecond latency and high throughput. The product serves use cases including fraud detection, real-time bidding, profile stores, recommendation engines, and customer 360 platforms across financial services, e-commerce, and advertising sectors. Based in Mountain View with 201–500 employees, the company maintains a distributed engineering presence across the U.S., India, Israel, U.K., and Southeast Asia. Core capabilities include key-value storage, flash-optimized (SSD) architecture, distributed query processing with secondary indexes, and user-defined functions—all designed to handle millions of transactions per second at fraction-of-cost economics relative to competing databases.
Aerospike's stack spans Linux, Python, Java, Node.js, Go, and C for core services, with Kubernetes and Docker for containerization. Observability includes Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, Splunk, and OpenTelemetry. Infrastructure tooling: Terraform, Ansible, AWS, GCP, Azure.
Current projects focus on Kubernetes operator development, cluster lifecycle automation, management tools, observability frameworks, and cloud deployment extensions. Active themes: digital-native account expansion and live incident resolution capabilities.
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