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.
Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) are hybrid software and systems engineers. They are the glue holding things together, whether that’s infrastructure, security, services, teams and processes.
You will join Couchbase to lead the Cloud Platform & Production Pipeline Initiatives and collaborate with the Product Management, Engineering, Support team to on-board new services, features, and solutions.
You will also ensure best practices for Couchbase Capella site reliability, scalability and cloud cost optimizations meeting business SLAs..
You will work with many software engineers and teams to ensure our cloud platform meets the needs of our organization and customers. You will set the strategy and operational KPIs for the platform team and the applications supported by the cloud organization. You will have an immediate impact on the day-to-day efficiency of cloud operations and an ongoing impact on growth.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with the product & engineering team to on-board new cloud services, features & solutions.
- Ensure SRE best practices are applied during design, development, deployment & monitoring.
- Lead SRE solutions with clear problem statements & business values
- Lead the Solution architecture, design and development using cloud-native technologies like Golang, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
- Work closely with development teams to write, review, and optimize code for scalability, reliability, and performance.
- Guide architectural decisions and software design, ensuring the platform can scale to meet future customer demands.
- Administer Capella cloud infrastructure and services for reliability, availability & optimization
- Help influence mitigation first strategy and adjustments to process, tools and service.
- Drive critical product events mitigation and RCA
- Improve Capella Observability, Serviceability and Tooling
- Improve CI/CD & release pipelines
- Collaborate with the infrastructure and service team on implementing best security practices.
- Take ownership of many controls, processes, and risks required to maintain our compliance portfolio (SOC 2, PCI-DSS, GDPR, and HIPAA, among others)
- Mentorship & Team Development: Mentor developers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and technical excellence. Lead by example in writing clean, maintainable, and efficient code.
- Stay up-to-date with new technologies and industry trends, and continuously improve the platform to meet the changing needs of the company
Requirements
- 10+ years experience in SRE/DevSecOps operating on public cloud
- Past 5+ years experience in leading cloud solutions architecture, design and implementation
- CSP administration skills in AWS, GCP & Azure
- Proficiency with programming and scripting languages like Go, Python, Java, or Ruby
- High proficiency with Linux operating systems
- Experience in running, managing and maintaining Kubernetes clusters both self-managed (vanilla/plain k8s) & managed (preferably AWS EKS)
- Knowledge and understanding of Security topics such as vulnerability management, pen testing, SCA, DAST, SAST and Security tools such as Sysdig, Synk, Blackduck etc
- Proficient working with Terraform configuration management tools, version control systems (Git), integrating with CI/CD platforms and tool chains such as CircleCI, GitHub, Spinnaker etc
- Strong understanding of networking security concepts, including TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, Firewalls, VPNs, VPCs, Private Links etc
- Deep working experience on cloud platforms and open source software like Artifactory, Jira, Jenkins, Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, Thanos etc
Preferred skills and qualifications
- Proficiency with Databases such as Couchbase is a plus.
- Security certifications are appreciated
The anticipated starting base pay range for this role is listed below. Base salary is not the only component of our competitive total rewards package - you may also be eligible for bonus, commissions, equity, and other benefits as described below. 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.
Base Pay Range
$182,835—$215,100 USD
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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