Software Engineer 2
Couchbase
Software Engineering
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Posted on Dec 12, 2024
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.
Software Engineer 2 - Search
- Design, implement, and test new features within Couchbase's Search offering, which is available on hosted and self-managed platforms.
- Our search offering is a distributed partitioned index which entails index management that supports exact and semantic search (nearest neighbour). Indexes ingest and build on content obtained from the Couchbase key-value store in real time. The search system supports horizontal scaling and high availability, offering query runtime in the order of milliseconds.
- The team is responsible for the full stack, from the UI to the storage of the search indexes.
Responsibilities:
- Thorough understanding of our search index architecture and some vision to influence product direction
- Write clean, well-documented code with a strong focus on unit testing and code review skills to uphold high-quality standards
- Analyze and optimize index performance by identifying bottlenecks, and offering configurable for users to tune queries
- Strong collaborative skills to work closely with other engineers on cross-functional teams distributed geographically to integrate new features with the overall architecture
- Troubleshoot complex technical issues related to performance, consistency and scalability
Requirements:
- 2-3+ years experience in Database, Distributed Systems, and Software Engineering
- Solid understanding of distributed systems, good level of proficiency in GOLANG some level of knowledge of information retrieval
- Collaborative and a play-to-win-together attitude to help peers and guide junior engineers as we onboard
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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