Principal Software Engineer, Couchbase
Capella
$200-235k
Enterprise-class, multicloud to edge NoSQL database
Open for applications
Enterprise-class, multicloud to edge NoSQL database
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$200-235k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To simplify how organizations develop, deploy, and run modern applications wherever they are.
Role
Who you are
- This role requires a strong background in software development with a deep understanding of distributed systems and modern development tools, with a particular emphasis on cloud-native architecture to ensure scalability and performance
- 5+ years of hands-on software development experience with Golang or similar languages
- 10+ years of experience designing, developing, and deploying high-performance, distributed systems and APIs in cloud environments
- Deep expertise with at least two major cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including a strong understanding of cloud services, orchestration, networking, security, and cloud-native development tools
- Proficiency with containerization using Docker, Kubernetes, and modern cloud-native technologies
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform
- Proven ability to provide technical leadership and executing technical roadmaps while actively contributing to development, architecture, and innovation
What the job involves
- Join our innovative software engineering team at Couchbase, where you'll be responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing core backend services of Capella, our advanced DBaaS platform, on AWS, GCP, and Azure
- This is a senior hands-on development role where you will take ownership of the development architecture and technical direction of our platform, focusing on building scalable, high-performance systems
- You’ll work with cloud-native technologies to solve complex challenges around real-time analytics, AI workloads, and high-volume data management, while ensuring our platform is robust, reliable, and capable of meeting our customers' most demanding needs
- You will collaborate closely with development teams, product management, and operations to ensure that Capella remains at the forefront of cloud platform solutions
- Software Architecture & Development: Lead the design and development of scalable, high-performance distributed systems using cloud-native technologies like Golang, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- This role requires a deep focus on software architecture and development
- Hands-On Development: This role involves hands-on development, ensuring that architectural decisions are implemented directly in production code
- Collaboration & Code Quality: Work closely with development teams to write, review, and optimize code for scalability, reliability, and performance
- Ensure adherence to best practices and high-quality standards in software development
- Technical Leadership: Guide architectural decisions and software design, ensuring the platform can scale to meet future customer demands
- CI/CD & Development Efficiency: Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to ensure efficient development workflows and rapid delivery of new features
- Mentorship & Team Development: Mentor developers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and technical excellence
- Lead by example in writing clean, maintainable, and efficient code
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 makes taking advantage of these features possible.
The cloud vendor's major bets on Kubernetes, mobile, and of course, NoSQL have paid off. Many of the world’s largest companies have come to consider this software as mission-critical and Couchbase has benefitted from this as exemplified by its IPO in 2021.
The biggest challenge for Couchbase is that it is playing in a large but competitive market, with the likes of DataStax and the publically traded MongoDB, and all the major cloud vendors vying for similar customers in the NoSQL space. However, Couchbase continues to grow post-IPO and serves influential clients including Mariott International, Amadeus, and LinkedIn.
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 benefits
- Generous Time Off Program - Flexibility to care for you and your family
- Wellness Benefits - A variety of world class medical plans to choose from, along with dental, vision, life insurance, and employee assistance programs
- Financial Planning - RSU equity program, ESPP program, Retirement program and Business Travel Insurance
- Career Growth - Be valued, Create value approach
- Fun Perks - An ergonomic and comfortable in-office / WFH setup. Food & Snacks for in-office employees
- And much more!
Company HQ
Santa Clara, CA
Leadership
Matt Cain
(Chair, President & CEO)Previously spent 2 years at Veritas Technologies, initially as Executive Vice President before becoming President of Worldwide Field Operations. Prior to that, they were VP/Senior VP at Symantec and also spent 6 years at Cisco Systems in various roles, including Senior Director of Product Management and Business Development.
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