Couchbase Associate SE Engineer 

United States 

682053120

Location: Pacific North West

Responsibilities:

• Whenever customers do a POC or hands-on evaluation, our Solutions Engineers help drive these by answering their questions and troubleshoot, so you will be hands on with technology.
• Responsibilities:
• Show customers how to solve their problems and meet their requirements with Couchbase and get them excited about NoSQL database technology
• Work closely with the sales team on account strategy and identifying additional opportunities in existing accounts
• Ensuring the success of customer PoC/Pilots through effective management of acceptance criteria and issue escalation/resolution.
• Developing and delivering exceptional company/product presentations and demonstrations
• Work with all technical levels (managers architects and developers) to explain Couchbase and its uses
• Be the technical product expert for customers and stay up-to-date on the NoSQL competitive landscape
• Work with Product Management and Engineering to provide feedback from the field and represent the customer perspective
• Identify and write internal and external technical collateral, like typical deployment architectures or best practices

Preferred Qualifications:

• BS in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent experience (up to 2 years experience in a technical position).
• Presentation skills with an ability to present technical solutions concisely to customers or potential customers
• Outgoing personality and confident in talking to people with differing backgrounds (Developers, Architects, Database Admins)
• Proactive in engaging with customer
• Passion for diving into technical issues and solving customer problems
• Enjoy a fast-paced startup environment

Desirable Qualifications:

• Linux experience as a development platform and basic administration.
• RDBMS experience including schema modeling, performance tuning and configuration
• Public/Private Cloud experience as a development platform and basic administration.
• Programming/development experience (Java, .NET, C, C++, Go, Node.js, PHP, Python, Scala).
• Familiarity with SQL and NoSQL databases a big plus.
• Track record of Open Source contributions
• Working knowledge of version control systems (e.g. Git, Subversion, CVS).
• Awareness of Open Source software development practices.
• An understanding of functional programming would be helpful but not essential.