Couchbaseinc

Couchbaseinc

Principal Software Engineer - Capella Control Plane

San Jose, CA · Principal

Sponsorship not specified$204k-$225kDetected 7 days ago
GoDistributed SystemsCode ReviewNoSQLVector DatabasesAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsKubernetesCI/CDSite Reliability EngineeringMachine LearningCybersecurityFirewallLoad BalancingResearchLeadershipMentoring

About the role

  • With Couchbase, organizations bring their data to life, launching game‑changing customer experiences, exploring the limitless potential of AI, and seamlessly extending applications from the cloud to the edge and beyond.
  • Couchbase's AI‑ready technology and enterprise partnership model eliminate complexity and reduce total cost of ownership, enabling teams to stay agile, innovative and secure.
  • Couchbase believes data should never slow you down, but act as the foundation for your next breakthrough.

Responsibilities

  • Hands-on Development: Develop and deliver production-quality Golang code for critical Capella platform services. Establish and enforce coding standards, CI/CD practices, and design patterns.
  • Multi-Cloud Infrastructure: Architect and optimize multi-cloud deployments, networking models, VPC/VNet peering, load balancing, and secure connectivity across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
  • Build and scale multi-tenant control plane services that orchestrate cluster lifecycle across providers.
  • Reliability & Observability: Define and implement monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting standards for operational excellence. Own accountability for production outcomes including root cause analysis and long-term remediation of critical issues.
  • Platform Capabilities: Lead design and delivery of core platform capabilities such as provisioning, lifecycle management, and security controls. Tackle ambiguous distributed systems challenges involving scaling, networking, and performance.
  • Maintain working knowledge of web UI architecture and partner effectively with frontend engineers on end-to-end control plane workflows.
  • Mentorship & Culture: Guide engineers across levels, perform code reviews, and set a high bar for engineering culture.
  • Expertise in Golang with proven experience building distributed, cloud-native systems.
  • Strong knowledge of system design, high availability, fault tolerance, and performance tuning.
  • Experience designing and building control plane and platform components for SaaS platforms at scale.

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure), including networking (VPCs, routing, load balancing, firewalls, private connectivity) and Kubernetes/container orchestration.
  • Experience with DBaaS platforms or large-scale database infrastructure.
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.

Skills

  • Couchbase, the operational data platform for AI, empowers businesses to succeed by bringing data to life in new ways.
  • Major market-leading companies rely on Couchbase for mission critical operational, analytical, mobile and AI workloads.
  • Visit couchbase.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.
  • Apply today!
  • Principal Software Engineer - Capella Control Plane
  • San Jose, California (Hybrid - in office at least 3 days/week)

Compensation

  • $204,000 - $225,000 USD

Company info

  • Guide engineers across levels, perform code reviews, and set a high bar for engineering culture.

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