Everyday we tackle new and exciting challenges to empower developers to build responsive and flexible cloud, mobile, and edge computing applications that scale effortlessly. Couchbase delivers unmatched versatility, performance, scalability and financial value across cloud, on premises, hybrid, distributed cloud and edge commuting deployments. The database market is one of the largest undisturbed markets for enterprise software. The main catalyst for this is the need for digital transformation. Join Couchbase to be a part of a greater change. Here you’ll have the opportunity to learn and grow with some of the most innovative, passionate and humble individuals in the database industry.
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Analytics team, your job will be to design and implement a cutting-edge parallel and distributed data management system.
You‘ll be part of a team working on hard problems, including distributed query processing, query compilation/optimization, data storage and replication - and the tissue that holds it all together.
You’ll primarily work with Java, but may also work with Go, Erlang, and possibly a few other languages thrown in for good measure.
Like open source? So do we: Couchbase and its engineers are active open source contributors for Couchbase, memcached, Apache AsterixDB, and other projects.
Responsibilities
- Create the world’s best distributed server infrastructure which companies will rely on for mission-critical OLTP and OLAP needs.
- Discuss and debate with your peers as you help figure out product requirements and the architectural approach to getting things built.
- Design and implement needle-mover features with simplicity, elegance, and economy.
- Research industry and academic leading-edge algorithms for distributed replication, consistency, availability, and scalability.
- Think quality; think leverage. Develop high-quality software and use unit, component, and end-to-end automation tests so we know we have high-quality software.
- Be agile
Qualifications
- You’re a self-motivated, independent, and high-performance person. You learn quickly and you enjoy worthy challenges.
- You have excellent analytical skills and a passion for pinning down technical issues and solving problems.
- You’re a good communicator and an excellent teammateYou have 4+ years of experience shipping commercial or open source software (prefer experience with packaged, downloadable software in the data management space).
- You are proficient in Java, but you’d also like to step into the world of other languages like Erlang & Go.
- You are proficient in systems programming.
- You like working in organizations that strive to have a good balance between doing it right and moving quickly.
- You have experience in processing queries on non-relational data.
- You know open source software development practices and ideally have of track record of open source contributions.
Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location. Additionally, information on benefits offered is below. The anticipated starting base pay range for this role is $138,000 - $180,000 per year.
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Why Couchbase?
Couchbase is named one of DTBA’s top 100 companies that matter in data. At Couchbase, we believe data is at the heart of the enterprise. We empower developers and architects to build, deploy, and run their most mission-critical applications. Couchbase delivers end-to-end technical solutions for all our customers with high-performance, flexible and scalable modern databases that run across the data centers and any cloud. Many of the world’s largest enterprises rely on Couchbase to power the core applications their businesses depend on. See our recent awards to learn what makes Couchbase such a great company to work at.
- Unlimited time off (DTO)
- Matching 401K contributions
- ESPP
- Medical, Dental & Vision
- Monthly credit towards a lifestyle spending account
- An ergonomic and comfortable in-office setup, with food and supporting technology, to assist in the setup of an efficient WFH and office environment
- And much more!
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