Software Engineer II

Overview

Join Couchbase's team building the Cloud Native management interfaces for its cloud native database platform, contributing components and integrations with Cloud Native ecosystem tooling.

What you'll do

• Design, implement, test and ship well-defined features that integrate Couchbase with Cloud Native technology such as Prometheus, Fluentd and Fluent-bit, and the Kubernetes Pod Autoscaler, working with senior engineers and product managers.
• Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code; participate in code reviews, both giving and receiving feedback.
• Communicate progress, risks and dependencies clearly to your team and partner with Quality Engineering on test coverage for the features you build.
• Contribute to documentation, examples and tutorials on integration with Cloud Native ecosystem components such as Fluentd, Prometheus and OpenTelemetry.
• Help Sales Engineers, Professional Services and Support investigate and resolve customer issues related to the features you own.
• Participate in sprint planning, estimation, CI/CD and on-call or bug triage rotations, and suggest improvements where you see opportunities.
• Work with Product Managers, Architects and senior engineers to understand requirements and help refine the design of new features.
• Collaborate with engineers on other teams where features depend on each other, and grow your knowledge of the broader Couchbase platform.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 1+ years of professional software development experience, proficient in one or more programming languages.
• Passion for learning new technologies and a desire to automate the boring stuff.
• Working knowledge of containers and Kubernetes (professional, academic or personal projects).
• Presence on GitHub (or similar).
• Comfortable working in Unix/Linux environments.

Nice to have

• Motivated, curious and self-driven individual, eager to learn new technologies quickly and grow with the guidance of senior team members.
• Experience with software development and build automation processes (Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
• Hands-on experience with Golang or Python, and with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with cloud deployment tooling (CloudFormation, Terraform, ARM Templates, GCP Cloud Deployment Manager).
• Experience with, or interest in, contributing to Open Source projects and working with a team distributed across time zones.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India.