Senior Software Engineer - Cloud
Couchbase, United States

At Couchbase, big things happen. Every day, we’re translating vision into reality by tackling new and exciting challenges head-on. This is a breakthrough stage in our company, where the enthusiasm of our employees and leadership team is infectious and growing. You’ll have the opportunity to learn new skills, grow your career, and work with the smartest, most passionate people in the industry.
You are a Senior Software Engineer responsible for building and managing cloud-native applications across multiple clouds. In this role, you will develop, implement, and operate Couchbase's Cloud products. If you have experience developing applications using Go programming language along with experience with either of the three major cloud platforms- AWS, Azure, GCP, we'd love to have you apply.
Here's a brief look at what success looks like in this role: *In 3 months time- you'll have earned the trust of the team, have taken on independent code review responsibilities that help prevent bugs, and have collaborated on the design of new features. *In 6 months time- you'll have delivered tasks throughout the entire SDLC, from design through development with minimum guidance and help to effectively mentor new engineers joining the team. You'll have established a cadence of predictable, on-time delivery with high-quality work.*In 12 months time- you are measurably reducing operational costs and improving performance and have clearly guided and contributed to the development of systems which have sympathy for the humans who maintain them.
This role is also open to remote work (USA, UK, India) as our teams are globally distributed. We are a remote-first team. Prior experience working remotely is not required, however, we are looking for team members who perform well given a high level of independence and autonomy and will establish a cadence of on-time delivery with high-quality work. Responsibilities

• Conceive, design, and implement solutions to ensure the stable, secure, and reliable operation of cloud systems
• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables
• Mentor new team members
• Build and expand our APIs and services, written in Go
• Conceive of solutions and collaborate with other engineers across the stack to deliver delightful user experiences
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve system security, stability, reliability, and performance
• Define and implement SLIs and monitor and improve SLOs
• Write various kinds of tests including unit and integration tests
• Smartly instrument software using techniques such as distributed tracing and logging
• Write and review technical proposals
• Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
• Document systems, build runbooks, and automate those processes
• Key technologies this role will employ: Go (Golang), Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, Grafana, Prometheus, Alert Manager, Thanos, Terraform, Vault, Couchbase Server, Datadog

Qualifications

• You have 5+ years of experience designing and developing distributed systems, API, workflow, concurrency, multithreading, and synchronization
• Demonstrate excellent time management skills and the ability to make realistic assessments of product complexity
• You love to write Go, more Go, and then a little more Go
• You enjoy giving and receiving code reviews
• You are kind and collaborative
• You enjoy working remote with people from all over the world
• The software you write is sympathetic to the humans who will maintain it
• Value clear, open communication. We value thoughtful feedback, regular dialogue, and collaboration as fundamental skills on our team.
• You are able to knowledgeably discuss performance, security, and user interactions within complex systems
• You care deeply about software quality and operability, and better ways of building software

About Couchbase
Couchbase's mission is to be the platform that accelerates application innovation. To make this possible, Couchbase created an enterprise-class, multi-cloud NoSQL database architected on top of an open source foundation. Couchbase is the only database that combines the best of NoSQL with the power and familiarity of SQL, all in a single, elegant platform spanning from any cloud to the edge.Couchbase has become pervasive in our everyday lives; our customers include industry leaders Amadeus, ATamp;T, BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), Carrefour, Comcast, Disney, DreamWorks Animation, eBay, Marriott, Neiman Marcus, Tesco, Tommy Hilfiger, United, Verizon, Wells Fargo, as well as hundreds of other household names.
Couchbase’s HQ is conveniently located in Santa Clara, CA with additional offices throughout the globe. We’re committed to a work environment where you can be happy and thrive, in and out of the office.
At Couchbase, you’ll get:* A fantastic culture* A f