Couchbase Software Engineer 

United Kingdom, England, Manchester 

734687121

Implement Management Features

• Working with a team of subject matter experts and the product managers, implement a set of features integrating Couchbase with Cloud Native tech. Some of these exist already, and some have prototypes. These include Prometheus, Fluentd and Fluent-bit, the Kubernetes Pod Autoscaler, etc.
• Be a bridge to other parts of the Engineering organization where product features interleave and depend upon each other. Keep track of delivery dates for dependent projects; partner with Quality Engineering in organizing interdependent project plans.

Support Across Lifecycle

• Contribute to and write tutorials on integration with Cloud Native ecosystem components such as Fluentd, Prometheus, Open Telemetry.
• Be an advocate to, and support Sales Engineers and Professional Services field organizations in understanding and bringing this tech to end users.
• Facilitate efficient development by the entire team through running development processes, ensuring dependent items are in place, adjusting course as needed to further improve efficiency of producing.

Partner to Product and Engineering

• Work with Product Managers, Architects and Principal Engineers in the definition and development of new features. In particular, become a subject matter expert for the Product Management team on where the opportunities and challenges are in the Cloud Native ecosystem.
• Work across engineering teams, in some cases as a contributor or reviewer on projects and components outside your team, to help adoption of Cloud Native techniques and interfaces.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Motivated, self-learning where needed, and highly productive individual, ready to learn new technologies and become quickly proficient.
• Experience with software development and build automation processes (Jenkins, Github Actions)
• Expertise with Golang, Python, Docker, Kubernetes and the related ecosystems.
• Knowledge of deployment processes in the cloud (Cloud Formation, Terraform, ARM Templates, GCP Cloud Deployment Scripts)
• Experience working with a team distributed across time zones.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Desire to automate the boring stuff
• Proficient in one or more programming languages
• Passion for learning new technologies
• Demonstrable experience with Kubernetes
• Presence on GitHub (or similar)
• Strong Unix/Linux administration skills