Lead Software Engineer

Overview

As a Lead Software Engineer on the Storage development team, you will enhance the highly scalable and performant storage engines used by Couchbase Server and Couchbase Capella.

What you'll do

• Design and develop features to enhance high performance, highly reliable storage engines for Couchbase Server and Couchbase Capella.
• Proactively take ownership of the product and provide excellent technical ambition in finding solutions to propel the product forward.
• Discuss and debate with peers to help figure out product requirements and the architectural approach to getting things built, tested and supported.
• Produce enterprise-level quality software and solutions that are performant for a highly-available system.
• Investigate and find causes for customer-facing issues, and derive optimal solutions in software improvements.
• Provide high-quality and detailed technical specifications within the team as well as external teams.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's/Master's degree in computer science or equivalent.
• 5+ years of experience building enterprise-grade infrastructure or systems software.
• Proficient in C++, Golang or Java.
• Experience with designing and writing concurrent/multi-threaded programs.
• Deep knowledge of advanced operating system concepts and data structures.
• Knowledge of Linux I/O stack and Database internals.
• Experience with performance analysis and debugging.
• Self-motivated, independent, and high-performance individual who learns quickly and enjoys worthy challenges.
• Good communicator and excellent team player.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of LSM trees.
• Experience in Distributed Systems.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India.