Director Software Engineering
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Requirements
• Expertise in Golang with proven experience building distributed, cloud-native systems. • Expertise in Golang • Strong knowledge of system design, high availability, fault tolerance, and performance tuning. • system design, high availability, fault tolerance, and performance tuning • Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure), including networking (VPCs, routing, load balancing, firewalls, private connectivity). • cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure) • networking (VPCs, routing, load balancing, firewalls, private connectivity) • Experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and multi-cloud deployments. • Kubernetes, container orchestration, and multi-cloud deployments • Experience designing and building platform and microservice components for control plane of SaaS platforms. • control plane of SaaS platforms • Experience mentoring engineers and influencing the engineering culture. • mentoring engineers • Hands-on problem solver who can balance strategic architecture with execution. • strategic architecture with execution • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field. • 12+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 5+ years in cloud/distributed systems. • Prior principal or staff engineer-level experience leading architecture and platform initiatives in DBaaS, cloud infrastructure, or large-scale SaaS environments.
Responsibilities
• System Design & Architecture: Define and evolve the control plane architecture for scalability, reliability, performance, and security. • System Design & Architecture • control plane architecture • Hands-on Development: Develop and deliver production-quality Golang code for critical Capella platform services. Participate in, and help guide the team on Golang coding standards and strategies. • Hands-on Development • Golang • Cloud Infrastructure & Networking: Architect and optimize multi-cloud deployments, networking models, VPC/VNet peering, load balancing, and secure connectivity for Capella. • Cloud Infrastructure & Networking • multi-cloud deployments, networking models, VPC/VNet peering, load balancing, and secure connectivity • Cloud-First SaaS Expertise: Build and scale multi-tenant control plane services that orchestrate Couchbase clusters across cloud providers. • Cloud-First SaaS Expertise • multi-tenant control plane services • Technical Standards: Establish and enforce coding standards with strong code reviews, CI/CD practices, and design patterns. • Technical Standards • coding standards with strong code reviews, CI/CD practices, and design patterns • Observability & Reliability: Define and implement monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting standards for operational excellence. • Observability & Reliability • monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting standards • High-impact Features: Lead design and delivery of core platform capabilities such as provisioning, lifecycle management, and security controls. • High-impact Features • core platform capabilities • Problem Solving: Tackle complex distributed systems challenges and resolve scaling, networking, and performance bottlenecks. • Problem Solving • scaling, networking, and performance bottlenecks • Cross-functional Collaboration: Work with product, SRE, Quality Engineering, and operations teams to align technical direction with business goals. • Cross-functional Collaboration • product, SRE, Quality Engineering, and operations teams • Multi-geo Team Collaboration: Partner effectively with global engineering teams across geographies, driving alignment and execution. • Multi-geo Team Collaboration • global engineering teams across geographies • Mentorship & Leadership: Guide junior and mid-level engineers, conduct reviews, and set a high bar for engineering culture. Perform code reviews in your area of influence. • Mentorship & Leadership • engineering culture • Innovation: Research and evaluate cloud-native technologies, frameworks, and architectures for Capella’s evolution. • Innovation • cloud-native technologies, frameworks, and architectures • Support & Troubleshooting (Tier 3): Lead root cause analysis and deliver long-term solutions for critical production issues. • Support & Troubleshooting (Tier 3) • root cause analysis
Benefits
• Modern customer experiences need a flexible cloud database platform that can power applications spanning from cloud to edge and everything in between. Couchbase’s mission is to simplify how developers and architects develop, deploy and consume modern applications wherever they are. We have reimagined the database with our fast, flexible and affordable cloud database platform Capella, allowing organizations to quickly build applications that deliver premium experiences to their customers– all with best-in-class price performance. More than 30% of the Fortune 100 trust Couchbase to power their modern applications and build innovative new ones. See our recent awards to learn why Couchbase is a great place to work.We are honored to be a part of the Best Places to Work Award for the Bay Area and the UK. Couchbase offers a total rewards approach to benefits that recognizes the value you create here, so that you in turn may best serve yourself and your family. Some benefits include: • 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 - 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. • Note: some programs are not applicable to all countries. Please discuss with a Couchbase recruiter to learn more. • Learn more about Couchbase:News and Press ReleasesCouchbase CapellaCouchbase BlogInvestors
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