As industries race to embrace AI, traditional database solutions fall short of rising demands for versatility, performance, and affordability. Couchbase is leading the way with Capella, the developer data platform for critical applications in our AI world. By uniting transactional, analytical, mobile, and AI workloads into a seamless, fully managed solution, Couchbase empowers developers and enterprises to build and scale applications with unmatched flexibility, performance, and cost-efficiency—from cloud to edge. Trusted by over 30% of the Fortune 100, Couchbase is unlocking innovation, accelerating AI transformation, and redefining customer experiences. Come join our mission.
Software Engineering Manager - Couchbase SRE
Site Reliability Engineering team is responsible for pro-active health and maintenance of Capella - Couchbase Cloud Offering. They pro-actively ensure the health of Capella services meeting SLAs/SLOs.
SRE is engaged for the entire lifecycle of service & features, ensuring metrics, monitoring, alerting, troubleshooting and mitigations. SRE is promoting Observability and implementing required Infrastructure and Tooling.
You will lead and manage the Capella Operational Tooling (FM) team and collaborate across the engineering team to design, implement and maintain FM features and capabilities. You will support operations, collaborate with the developers and architects to aid in the design; and assist with the implementation to improve stability, security, and scalability.
Responsibilities
- Foster high performance environment, ensuring growth of business and team members
- Collaborate across Couchbase on business priorities and executions.
- Build, grow, and mentor team members
- Strong sense of ownership, encourage and foster a culture of visibility and transparency
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Hands-on Design, Coding, and Reviews
- Able to troubleshoot issues across the entire software stack
- On-call rotations & incident management
Requirements
- Bachelor of Engineering (preferably computer engineering)
- Proficiency with programming and scripting languages like Go, Python, Java, Shell
- Proficiency with Linux operating systems
- Familiarity with database technologies such as Couchbase, MongoDB, Cassandra
Preferred skills and qualifications
- Experience with Kubernetes (k8s) & managed (preferably AWS EKS)
- Proficiency with Databases such as Couchbase is a plus.
- Working experience on cloud platforms and open source software like Jira, Jenkins, Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, Thanos etc
Why Couchbase?
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 - 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!
*Note: some programs are not applicable to all countries. Please discuss with a Couchbase recruiter to learn more.
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