Aerospike

Director, Professional Services

United States

Not SpecifiedCompensation
Senior (5 to 8 years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Database Technology, Real-Time Data SolutionsIndustries

Director, Professional Services

Company Overview

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. We empower companies to tackle seemingly insurmountable challenges and achieve what’s never been done before. That’s why we developed the world’s leading real-time database—powering mission-critical applications for the most innovative, category-disrupting organizations.

Aerospike enables extreme-scale, real-time applications that:

  • Fight fraud in microseconds.
  • Drive dramatic increases in shopping cart size.
  • Power global digital payments.
  • Deliver hyper-personalized user experiences to tens of millions.

Industry leaders like Airtel, Experian, Nielsen, PayPal, Snap, Verizon Media, and Wayfair trust Aerospike as the foundation for their future. They rely on us to act in the moments that matter.

Headquartered in Mountain View, California, with offices in London, Bangalore, and Tel Aviv, Aerospike is the uncontested leader in next-generation, always-on, hyperscale data solutions. Unlike legacy NoSQL systems, our patented Hybrid Memory Architecture unlocks today’s hardware to deliver unimaginable performance and value for the most demanding data workloads—from the edge, to the core, to the cloud.

If you're ready to shape the future of data, join us.

Position Overview

The Director of Professional Services is a senior technical leader with strong hands-on engineering and solution architecture expertise. With a high degree of autonomy and minimal supervision, this role is responsible for driving Services and Training revenue globally by directly engaging with customers, partners, and internal teams to deliver robust, scalable solutions based on Aerospike’s real-time data platform.

This is a deeply technical, client-facing role that demands fluency in distributed systems, hands-on coding, architectural design, and cross-functional leadership. The Director is expected to guide and actively contribute to the delivery of sophisticated data-intensive solutions, mentor engineering talent, and serve as a key technical advisor during both pre-sales and post-sales phases.

Key Responsibilities

Solution Engineering & Architecture

  • Serve as lead solution architect for critical customer engagements, owning technical design, platform integration, and hands-on implementation of the Aerospike database within varied customer environments.
  • Engage directly in coding, prototyping, and data modeling where appropriate to validate design decisions and accelerate deployments.
  • Lead technical discovery with customers to gather architecture specifications, business goals, and system design constraints.
  • Translate business and functional requirements into highly available and performant technical solutions.
  • Author technical documentation, architectural diagrams, implementation roadmaps, and system integration plans.
  • Drive full-lifecycle solution delivery, including deployment automation, custom policy definition, data transformation and migration, and performance tuning.

Client & Partner Engagement

  • Act as a trusted technical advisor to executive stakeholders and technical decision-makers at Fortune 500 companies across industries (Finance, Telco, AdTech/MarTech, Retail/E-commerce).
  • Assist with the creation and delivery of Statements of Work (SOWs), technical proposals, and ROI/TCO models tailored to client-specific use cases.
  • Guide and support partners through technical enablement and hands-on mentorship, ensuring their ability to confidently deploy and support Aerospike solutions globally.
  • Lead the technical aspects of consultative selling, articulating technical differentiation and best practices in large-scale distributed systems.

Training & Enablement

  • Oversee and evolve the Training Services group, ensuring delivery of hands-on, expert-level training across virtual, self-paced, and instructor-led formats.

Salary

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Location Type

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Skills

Distributed Systems
Solution Architecture
Coding
Architectural Design
Client Engagement
Technical Leadership

Aerospike

High-performance NoSQL database for real-time applications

About Aerospike

Aerospike builds high-performance, scalable databases for real-time applications, primarily serving large enterprises in finance, telecommunications, e-commerce, and advertising technology. Its main product is a NoSQL database that can process millions of transactions per second with low latency, making it suitable for applications that require quick data access. Aerospike offers various deployment options, including on-premises, cloud-based, and hybrid environments, and supports container orchestration tools like Kubernetes and Docker for flexible deployment. Unlike many competitors, Aerospike focuses on providing advanced features such as cross-datacenter replication and strong consistency. The company's goal is to enable businesses to efficiently manage and access large volumes of data in real-time.

Mountain View, CaliforniaHeadquarters
2009Year Founded
$195.5MTotal Funding
LATE_VCCompany Stage
Data & Analytics, Enterprise SoftwareIndustries
201-500Employees

Benefits

Health Insurance
Paid Vacation
Professional Development Budget
Mental Health Support

Risks

Emerging NoSQL providers offering similar solutions at lower costs threaten Aerospike's market share.
Rapid AI evolution may strain Aerospike's resources to innovate continuously.
Cloud-native database trends challenge Aerospike's traditional deployment models.

Differentiation

Aerospike offers sub-millisecond latency for real-time data processing applications.
The company supports hybrid cloud environments, enhancing deployment flexibility for enterprises.
Aerospike's NoSQL database handles millions of transactions per second efficiently.

Upsides

Increased demand for real-time data processing boosts Aerospike's adoption in the financial sector.
The rise of edge computing positions Aerospike well for IoT and edge applications.
Expansion in digital payment systems offers growth opportunities in emerging markets.

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