Every day we tackle new and exciting challenges to empower developers to build modern cloud, mobile, and edge applications that deliver a premium user experience. Couchbase delivers unmatched performance, scalability, flexibility and financial value across cloud, on premises, hybrid, mobile and edge deployments. The database market is undergoing a generational shift and is one of the largest market opportunities in enterprise software due to big trends like the need for digital transformation, acceleration to the cloud and innovation at the edge. 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.
Cloud Architect
This position will be part of the Capella engineering team that builds and operates our advanced DBaaS service across AWS, GCP, and Azure. This will be a highly visible role responsible for driving the architecture and leading the implementation of systems related to reliability, scalability, performance optimization, and multi-cloud management. The candidate will demonstrate and implement cloud-native development best practices, ensuring our architecture is robust and scalable. In Capella, we are the custodians of our customers' data, and ensuring cloud infrastructure stability, performance, and reliability is paramount in everything we do. This position will play a critical role in building an advanced DBaaS platform that securely powers some of the most demanding applications of our customers. They will collaborate closely with stakeholders across the organization, including engineering, product management, and operations.
Key Responsibilities
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Architectural Leadership: Own and drive the architecture of our DBaaS platform, ensuring it meets defined performance, scalability, and security SLOs. Lead technical planning and execute a roadmap that positions Capella at the forefront of transactional, real-time analytics, and AI.
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Cross-Team Collaboration: Work with Engineering, Product Management, Support, SRE, and Field Engineering to align priorities and architecture, ensuring features integrate with Capella’s long-term goals. Understand user needs, address pain points, and drive improvements in performance, scalability, and reliability.
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Technical Oversight: Lead the cloud engineering team by collaborating on design, conducting code reviews, and ensuring that features are efficient, secure, and high quality.
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Operational Support & Monitoring: Partner with the SRE team to develop effective monitoring solutions, ensuring the right telemetry is in place to meet SLOs and improve efficiency. Monitor alerts and dashboards to proactively identify potential issues.
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Customer Engagement & Support: Serve as the primary technical point of contact for Capella during customer engagements, resolving technical challenges and collaborating with field engineering and support teams to address complex issues.
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Mentorship & Team Development: Foster continuous learning and skill development by mentoring junior engineers. Partner with engineering managers to recruit top talent, strengthening the cloud engineering team.
Required Qualifications
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10+ years of experience in building highly available, high-performance distributed systems on cloud platforms, with at least 5 years focused on designing and architecting solutions to meet performance, scalability, and security SLOs.
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5+ years of experience managing and optimizing Linux systems in production environments on cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, with expertise in tuning for cloud-specific networking, storage, and compute.
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Proficiency with at least two major cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), including deep knowledge of orchestration, networking, security, and cloud-native development tools.
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3+ years of hands-on development experience in Golang, or similar languages, with a preference for Golang expertise.
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Experience in customer-facing technical roles, acting as a technical point of contact to resolve complex issues.
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Proven experience in technical planning and executing roadmaps to advance cloud platform capabilities.
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Extensive experience in managing cloud infrastructure, ensuring stability, and implementing security protocols.
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
$200,000—$235,000 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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Unlike other NoSQL databases, Couchbase provides an enterprise-class, multicloud to edge database that offers the robust capabilities required for business-critical applications on a highly scalable and available platform. Couchbase is built on open standards, combining the best of NoSQL with the power and familiarity of SQL, to simplify the transition from mainframe and relational databases.
