Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Operational AI

About the Role

Aerospike is the real-time database for mission-critical use cases and workloads, including machine learning, generative, and agentic AI. Aerospike powers millions of transactions per second with millisecond latency, at a fraction of the total cost of ownership compared to other databases. Global leaders, including Adobe, Airtel, Barclays, Criteo, DBS Bank, Experian, Grab, HDFC Bank, PayPal, Sony Interactive Entertainment, The Trade Desk, and Wayfair, rely on Aerospike for customer 360, fraud detection, real-time bidding, profile stores, recommendation engines, and other use cases. At Aerospike , we dream big and deliver even bigger. Our mission is to unleash the power of the world’s real-time data with a database built for infinite scale, speed, and sustainability . If you're ready to shape the future of data, join us. The Opportunity As AI transitions from analysis into action, enterprises need an operational foundation that connects autonomous workflows to live data—backed by authoritative state, low-latency context, and strict runtime controls. As a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) at Aerospike , you will embed directly with customer engineering teams to build and ship these real-time systems. You will bridge software engineering and customer operations: writing production-ready code, integrating Aerospike with enterprise data systems and AI frameworks, and validating performance under real production workloads. In this role, you will take technical requirements from problem discovery through implementation and rollout. Beyond customer delivery, you will contribute directly to Aerospike ’s core capabilities by turning engagement-specific solutions into reusable libraries, reference architectures, and tooling. What You’ll Build Authoritative State Foundations: Build and deploy real-time distributed data models for agent, session, and workflow state. Support high-concurrency reads and writes while meeting explicit requirements for freshnes

Requirements & Qualifications

• Strong problem solving foundations, knowledge of modern engineering practices, and interest in technology systems.

Perks & Benefits

• Official mentor support
• verified hiring timeline
• and career progression.