Senior Software Engineer, Couchbase

• Demonstrable experience working with Kubernetes
• Desire to automate the boring stuff
• Proficient in one or more programming languages
• Passion for learning new technologies
• Presence on GitHub (or similar)
• Strong Unix/Linux administration skills
• If you see a role that excites you, but don’t meet every qualification, we still encourage you to apply

Desirable

• With your passion to learn about the cloud, you are excited to help advance the Cloud Native management interfaces of an already Cloud Native Database platform
• You will be part of the team that helps set the direction and define the interfaces and components necessary to advance what it means to be a cloud native database platform
• Your curiosity of the Cloud Native ecosystem will help bring Couchbase to everywhere it can add value
• Your ability to represent Couchbase’s interests in Open Source Cloud Native projects, engaging those communities as a knowledgeable expert, will further not only your company’s value, but also the value of that ecosystem
• You will also be an advocate for Cloud Native tech to other subject matter experts in Couchbase Engineering. In doing so, you and Couchbase will continue to gather users, deployments and customers in the constantly growing database market
• Working with a team of subject matter experts and the product managers, implement a set of features integrating Couchbase with Cloud Native tech. Some of these exist already, and some have prototypes. These include Prometheus, Fluentd and Fluent-bit, the Kubernetes Pod Autoscaler, etc
• Be a bridge to other parts of the Engineering organization where product features interleave and depend upon each other. Keep track of delivery dates for dependent projects; partner with Quality Engineering in organizing interdependent project plans
• Contribute to and write tutorials on integration with Cloud Native ecosystem components such as Fluentd, Prometheus, Open Telemetry
• Be an advocate to, and support Sales Engineers and Professional Services field organizations in understanding and bringing this tech to end users
• Facilitate efficient development by the entire team through running development processes, ensuring dependent items are in place, adjusting course as needed to further improve efficiency of producing
• Work with Product Managers, Architects and Principal Engineers in the definition and development of new features. In particular, become a subject matter expert for the Product Management team on where the opportunities and challenges are in the Cloud Native ecosystem
• Work across engineering teams, in some cases as a contributor or reviewer on projects and components outside your team, to help adoption of Cloud Native techniques and interfaces