Senior Software Engineer, Couchbase
Storage
$148-174k
Office located in San Jose, CA
Operational data platform for AI
Job no longer available
Operational data platform for AI
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$148-174k
Office located in San Jose, CA
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To simplify how organizations develop, deploy, and run modern applications wherever they are.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background, excellent communication skills, and proactive problem-solving skills
- Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in computer science or equivalent
- Around 5 years of development experience on enterprise system software
- Proficient in C++, Golang or Java
- Experience with designing and writing concurrent/multi-threaded programs
- Deep knowledge of advanced operating system concepts and data structures
- Knowledge of LSM trees is a plus
- Knowledge of Linux I/O stack and Database internals
- Experience with performance analysis and debugging
- Experience in Distributed Systems is a plus
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) is a plus
- You’re a self-motivated, independent, and high-performance individual
- You learn quickly and you enjoy worthy challenges
- You’re a good communicator and an excellent team player
- You like working in organizations that strive to have a good balance between doing it right and moving quickly
What the job involves
- As a key contributing member of the storage development team, you will be responsible for enhancing the highly scalable and performant storage engines used by both Couchbase Server and Couchbase Capella
- You will be developing a highly-available and concurrent enterprise-grade system software
- Most of all, you will be able to celebrate the wins by experiencing the direct result of your hard work from our customers’ success stories
- The innovative work storage team does has been widely recognized by the industry
- Design and develop features to enhance high performance, highly reliable storage engines for Couchbase Server and Couchbase Capella
- Proactively take ownership in the product, and provide excellent technical ambition in finding solutions to propel the product forward
- Discuss and debate with your peers as you help figure out product requirements and the architectural approach to getting things built, tested & supported
- Produce enterprise-level quality software and solutions that are performant for a highly-available system
- Exhibit unrelenting motivation to investigate and find causes for customer-facing issues, and to derive optimal solutions in software improvements
- Provide high-quality and detailed technical specifications within the team as well as external teams
Our take
Critical functions for digital businesses such as computing and storage have become cheaper by orders of magnitude with the advent of cloud computing. However, these businesses still face the challenge of architecting their services under this paradigm. Couchbase’s NoSQL database is designed to help organizations build scalable, distributed systems that take advantage of cloud-native infrastructure.
The company's major bets on Kubernetes, mobile and NoSQL have paid off too. With many large enterprises now treating Couchbase as mission-critical infrastructure, a trajectory that culminated because of ts 2021 IPO. While it operates in a highly competitive database market, the company has continued to grow post-IPO and is now positioning itself around the next shift in enterprise architecture: AI-native applications.
The recent launch of Couchbase AI Services reflects an effort to unify operational data, vector search and model hosting within a single platform, reducing the complexity that often prevents generative AI and agent-based systems from moving beyond proof-of-concept. By embedding governance, validation and security controls directly into the data layer, Couchbase is aiming to make its database a core foundation for production AI workloads.
Kirsty
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Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
May 2020
$105m
SERIES G
Mar 2016
$30m
SERIES F
Total funding: $251m
Company HQ
Cypress, San Jose, CA
Leadership
BJ Schaknowski
(CEO)Prior to joining Couchbase in 2025, BJ was the CEO of symplr. He also served as the Chief Sales & Marketing Officer at Vertafore and as an SVP of Marketing, Sales & Services at LexisNexis Software Solutions.
Veronica Curran
(CPO)Veronica Previously founded Magnolia People Solutions where she served as a Managing Partner for nearly 2 years. Prior to that, she was the Chief People and culture Officer at SmartBear and the CPO at Alumni Ventures Group.
Gopi Duddi
(CTO)Gopi joined Couchbase in 2022 as an SVP of Engineering, moving into the role of CTO in 2025. Prior to this, he spent 10 years at Amazon AWS, joining in 2012 as a Senior Manager of Database Services before moving into the role of GM. He also spent 7 years at IBM In various Managerial roles.
Josh Harbert
(CMO)Josh is also the co-founder and President of SustainableIT.org. Previously, he served as the CMO at Delphix and the VP of Marketing at Tanium and Qumulo.
Amir Jafari
(CFO)Amir is also the CFO/Head of Finance & Operations at Blend. Previously, he served as the CFO at Plastiq and Reputation.com.
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