Software Engineer 2
As industries race to embrace AI, traditional database solutions fall short of rising demands for versatility, performance, and affordability. Couchbase is leading the way with Capella, the developer data platform for critical applications in our AI world. By uniting transactional, analytical, mobile, and AI workloads into a seamless, fully managed solution, Couchbase empowers developers and enterprises to build and scale applications with unmatched flexibility, performance, and cost-efficiency—from cloud to edge. Trusted by over 30% of the Fortune 100, Couchbase is unlocking innovation, accelerating AI transformation, and redefining customer experiences. Come join our mission.
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
- 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!
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