Senior Product Manager, Couchbase
SDKs, Connectors & APIs
Operational data platform for AI
Job no longer available
Operational data platform for AI
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To simplify how organizations develop, deploy, and run modern applications wherever they are.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of software engineering experience that includes 1-2 years of product management experience in building distributed software with complex technical product requirements
- Hands-on experience developing backend applications in one or more of the following programming languages: Java, .NET, node.JS, Python, Go
- Experience with event-based architectures and technologies, such as Kafka, MQTT and other pub-sub systems
- Familiarity with API technologies including REST, graphQL, gRPC etc
- Familiarity with database technologies and platforms
- Excellent verbal and oral communication skills are critical. Ability to distill use cases into detailed functional requirements and product requirements specifications
Desirable
- Passion for and experience shipping SDKs and tools for developers. For example, you’ve shipped CLIs, SDKs, APIs, and/or IDE extensions
- Familiar with developer ecosystem - you have built connectors that connect that developers can use to connect to or interface with your platform
What the job involves
- Couchbase is seeking a Senior Product Manager to take on a key role in our Developer Platforms product management team, focusing our portfolio of server SDKs, database connectors and data access APIs
- Execute on the strategic direction and vision of how developers interact with and integrate with Couchbase. As the product owner of our data access and integration technologies, you will focus on expanding the capabilities of our database SDKs, data streaming connectors, and data access APIs and identify areas for improving developer productivity and experience
- Maintain a deep understanding of the strategic & technical objectives of the company, and how to improve upon this to make an impact when our developers interact with Couchbase
- Work closely with the developer user experience team to ship the right product experiences across our SDKs, Connect UI, and data access APIs
- Stay on top of market trends and competition. Actively maintain a view of how technologies evolve, and factor competitive information and customer feedback into our product direction
- Partner closely with engineering teams to execute on the roadmap - working on technical product requirements, validating pre-release features and contributing to product documentation
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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