Java Developer, Performance & Benchmarking

We’re looking for a skilled Java Developer to join our Product Marketing team and help showcase the real-world technical value of our high-performance database technology.

In this unique role at the crossroads of product, marketing, and sales, you’ll develop open-source benchmarking tools and customer-focused demos that highlight Aerospike’s performance, resilience, and scalability in real-world scenarios. Your work will be central to how we communicate technical value in the market, empowering our marketing team with precision storytelling and enabling our sales team to demonstrate value effectively throughout the sales cycle.

You’ll collaborate closely with a cross-functional team, gaining hands-on exposure to the full lifecycle of a high-growth technology company, from building the product, to defining its value, to taking it to market. This role will prepare you for strategic positions that demand a balance of technical depth and commercial awareness. You’ll be the primary developer for this initiative, working under the guidance of a manager who is also a hands-on developer. Expect regular code reviews, design discussions, and mentoring.

We’re not looking for decades of experience, what matters is your ability to write solid, maintainable Java code, reason about your work, and clearly explain your results. Using online resources or AI tools is encouraged, provided you can justify your approach.

Key Responsibilities

• Extend and enhance our Java-based benchmarking framework to surpass YCSB in flexibility, maintainability, and extensibility
• Contribute to open-source releases, making your work visible to the global developer community
• Build tools and interfaces that highlight Aerospike’s strengths in performance, resilience, and scalability for specific customer scenarios
• Develop automation to run benchmarks under varied configurations and deployment models
• Produce credible, repeatable, outward-facing results that resonate with both technical and business stakeholders
• Ensure all tests are reproducible, well-documented, and aligned with product marketing and sales objectives

• Strong object-oriented programming skills in Java
• Solid understanding of Java core libraries, concurrency, and networking
• Ability to write clean, maintainable, and well-structured code
• Proficiency with Linux command line and basic scripting
• Ability to learn quickly, work independently, and communicate results clearly
• Interest in scalability, performance engineering, and technical storytelling

• Experience with distributed or high-performance systems
• Understanding of performance metrics such as latency, throughput, and percentiles
• Familiarity with relational or NoSQL databases
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP