Technical Program Manager, Couchbase
$160-200k
+ Equity
Office located in Santa Clara, CA
Operational data platform for AI
Job no longer available
Operational data platform for AI
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$160-200k
+ Equity
Office located in Santa Clara, CA
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To simplify how organizations develop, deploy, and run modern applications wherever they are.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- Experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team project
- Experience with one or more of AWS, GCP and Azure platforms. Any level of certification is helpful, but not a requirement
- Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
- Good understanding of large scale distributed systems design, and operational challenges
- Adapt at working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with rapidly changing requirements
- Experience partnering with engineering teams and driving execution across all phases of the software development lifecycle
- You enjoy working remote with people from all over the world
- You enjoy working with ambiguity and in a rapidly growing and changing environment
- Proficient verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to create clear and concise specifications, and executive reports
What the job involves
- As a Technical Program Manager, you will lead the planning, management, communication, and governance of Couchbase Engineering and Cloud programs and projects in a collaborative, fast-paced, disciplined, results-oriented environment
- Drive effective escalation management, ensuring timely follow-up with internal stakeholders on potential escalations and overseeing the closure of escalated issues
- Facilitate communication with key Couchbase customers, conducting thorough assessments, collecting feedback, and transforming insights into tangible enhancements
- Coordinate and execute efficient release management processes, ensuring the smooth and timely deployment of software updates while maintaining rigorous testing and validation protocols
- Lead the development and implementation of comprehensive security programs, overseeing risk assessments, designing security strategies, and ensuring compliance with industry standards to safeguard organizational assets and data
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of engineering solutions, consistently meeting and exceeding Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for both development and support functions
- Formulate, organize, coordinate, and monitor inter-connected projects and programs that setup distributed teams for success
- Ensure clarity of cross-functional requirements with clear success criteria
- Resolve issues affecting scope, quality, and schedules
- Ensure issues and backlog is managed effectively and timely
- Effectively manage change and resources while escalating and managing risks at the earliest possible opportunity
- Work with the product team to clarify and specify the future of the product
- Manage dependencies across multiple work streams to identify potential risk areas through data-focused analysis and identify mitigation actions
- Communicate goals, status, risks, and impact to teams and stakeholders, adapting your communication style to your audience
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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