As a Software Engineer on the Mobile development team, you will be responsible for designing and implementing new features for Couchbase Lite, Couchbase’s embedded client database.  Couchbase Lite delivers cutting-edge innovation to support development of modern applications, including vector search, peer-to-peer sync, and cloud-to-edge synchronization. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background, excellent communication skills, and proactive problem-solving skills.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
• 3+ years of development experience in Java/Android/Kotlin.
• Strong Java and Kotlin skills, with experience designing and implementing concurrent / multi-threaded applications.
• Experience with designing and writing Android libraries is a plus.
• Cross-platform development experience, including Android and iOS 
• Experience with mobile databases including SQLite is a plus.
• Experience with distributed systems, data replication and/or database design is a plus. 
• Experience doing test-driven development
• You’re a self-motivated, independent, and high-performance individual.
• You learn quickly and you enjoy worthy challenges.
• You’re a good communicator and an excellent team player.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop features to enhance functionality, performance, and reliability for Couchbase Lite.
• Contribute to design and architecture discussions, and collaborate with team members to understand and take ownership of functional areas of the product.
• Produce enterprise-level quality software and solutions that are performant.
• Exhibit unrelenting motivation to investigate and find causes for customer-facing issues, and to derive optimal solutions in software improvements.
• Provide high-quality and detailed technical specifications within the team as well as external teams.

With your passion to learn about the cloud, you are excited to help advance the Cloud Native management interfaces of an already Cloud Native Database platform.  You will be part of the team that helps set the direction and define the interfaces and components necessary to advance what it means to be a cloud native database platform. Your curiosity of the Cloud Native ecosystem will help bring Couchbase to everywhere it can add value.  Your ability to represent Couchbase’s interests in Open Source Cloud Native projects, engaging those communities as a knowledgeable expert, will further not only your company’s value, but also the value of that ecosystem. You will also be an advocate for Cloud Native tech to other subject matter experts in Couchbase Engineering. In doing so, you and Couchbase will continue to gather users, deployments and customers in the constantly growing database market.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

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:

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

Lead Software Engineer - Storage

As a key contributing member of the storage development team, you will be responsible for enhancing the highly scalable and performant storage engines used by both Couchbase Server and Couchbase Capella. You will be developing a highly-available and concurrent enterprise-grade system software. Most of all, you will be able to celebrate the wins by experiencing the direct result of your hard work from our customers’ success stories. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background, excellent communication skills, and proactive problem-solving skills.

The innovative work storage team does has been widely recognized by the industry. The following publications in VLDB conferences reflect the storage work at Couchbase

Nitro: A Fast, Scalable In-Memory Storage Engine for NoSQL Global Secondary Index

Magma: A High Data Density Storage Engine Used in Couchbase

Requirements

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
• 5+ years of experience building enterprise-grade infrastructure or systems software.
• Proficient in C++, Golang or Java. 
• Experience with designing and writing concurrent/multi-threaded programs. 
• Deep knowledge of advanced operating system concepts and data structures.
• Knowledge of LSM trees is a plus.
• Knowledge of Linux I/O stack and Database internals.
• Experience with performance analysis and debugging.
• Experience in Distributed Systems is a plus.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) is a plus
• You’re a self-motivated, independent, and high-performance individual.
• You learn quickly and you enjoy worthy challenges.
• You’re a good communicator and an excellent team player.
• You like working in organizations that strive to have a good balance between doing it right and moving quickly.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop features to enhance high performance, highly reliable storage engines for Couchbase Server and Couchbase Capella.
• Proactively take ownership in the product, and provide excellent technical ambition in finding solutions to propel the product forward.
• Discuss and debate with your peers as you help figure out product requirements and the architectural approach to getting things built, tested & supported.
• Produce enterprise-level quality software and solutions that are performant for a highly-available system.
• Exhibit unrelenting motivation to investigate and find causes for customer-facing issues, and to derive optimal solutions in software improvements.
• Provide high-quality and detailed technical specifications within the team as well as external teams.

• 15+ years of experience in software engineering, with 5+ years leading multiple teams.
• Strong background in distributed systems, databases, or large-scale cloud platforms.
• Deep Experience in Cloud Platforms - AWS, GCP, Azure
• Hands-on familiarity with Data and AI infrastructure concepts such as:
• Vector search and indexing
• Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
• Embedding pipelines
• LLM and inference systems
• Agent architectures and memory systems
• Experience building and operating production SaaS services at scale.
• Deep understanding of performance engineering, reliability, and cost optimization in cloud environments.
• Experience in Go, Python or Java.

Role: Senior Software Engineer - Secondary Indexing

If you are passionate about designing and developing low latency and highly scalable distributed database systems, and vector databases this is the job for you.

As a senior software engineer, you will design and develop features and enhancements to the core database platform. You will work on technically challenging problems on a regular basis and will contribute to the cutting edge technologies needed by a modern, distributed, No-SQL database. With the increase in AI and RAG applications, vector databases have gained importance. You will work on design and implementation of the features for a modern day vector database. In this job, you will also contribute to the modern day cloud database and solve problems related to multi-tenancy, auto scaling, fair usage, availability, load balancing etc. You will get an opportunity to make a significant impact on the design and architecture of Couchbase’s next generation cloud and vector database.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the core database platform with features and enhancements, including the vector search capabilities.
• Deliver the tasks end to end, starting from requirements gathering to handover to QA, Support and Field teams.
• Take full ownership of the tasks while ensuring the timely delivery.
• Be a good team player and work together with team members to successfully deliver on the tasks. 
• Write best quality code adhering to open source coding standards.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in backend development
• Very strong grasp over one of the backend programming languages (including language internals) is required - languages like C/C++, Python, Java, Golang.
• Strong understanding of multithreading and concurrent programming
• Good fundamental knowledge of OS, Networks and system programming.
• Ability to work with uncompromising integrity and exhibit best quality work ethics. 
• Passionate and a high performance individual, who is eager to learn and contribute.

Nice to have

• Experience with vector databases.
• Hands on experience with database platform development
• Hands on experience with programming in Golang
• Hands on experience with coding core concepts of Distributed Systems
• Hands on experience with large scale distributed systems and/or large scale cloud server development.

Minimum Qualification

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering

OPENING:*

At Couchbase, big things happen. Every day, we’re translating vision into reality by tackling new and exciting challenges head-on. Here at Couchbase you’ll have the opportunity to learn new skills, grow your career, and work with the smartest, most passionate people in the industry.

With your passion to learn about the cloud, you are excited to help advance the Cloud Native management interfaces of an already Cloud Native Database platform.  You will be part of the team that helps set the direction and define the interfaces and components necessary to advance what it means to be a cloud native database platform. Your curiosity of the Cloud Native ecosystem will help bring Couchbase to everywhere it can add value.  Your ability to represent Couchbase’s interests in Open Source Cloud Native projects, engaging those communities as a knowledgeable expert, will further not only your company’s value, but also the value of that ecosystem. You will also be an advocate for Cloud Native tech to other subject matter experts in Couchbase Engineering. In doing so, you and Couchbase will continue to gather users, deployments and customers in the constantly growing database market.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

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.
• 4+ years of 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

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer – AI 

Experience: 4–6 Years
Location: Bangalore | Hybrid model (3 days in office per week)

 Employment Type: Full-time

Role Overview

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to build and operate highly scalable, developing enterprise grade AI Tools, aimed at merging databases with the dynamic world of Artificial Intelligence. 

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain performant, scalable, and highly available enterprise-level software. 
• Develop distributed systems that handle real-time and batch processing at scale.
• Ensure reliability, observability, and fault tolerance of AI pipeline services.
• Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews, and technical design discussions.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 4–6 years of professional experience in software engineering.
• Strong proficiency in languages such as  Go or Python
• Hands-on experience building AI Solutions or ML pipelines in production environments (inference, data pipelines, feature serving).
• Experience building cloud-native applications on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts (scalability, consistency, replication, fault tolerance).
• Experience with RESTful APIs, asynchronous processing, and event-driven architectures.

Nice to Have

• Experience with vector search or embedding-based retrieval pipelines.
• Experience with building applications using NoSQL databases.

• Lead the design of end-to-end product experiences for Couchbase, with focus on Capella, from initial concept through polished execution.
• Collaborate with product and engineering to translate complex requirements into user-centered designs.
• Clarify requirements, identify constraints, and challenge assumptions to better define the problem space.
• Explore a wide breadth of design options and articulate tradeoffs for each approach.
• Deliver crisp, pixel-perfect, and robust high-fidelity designs, including edge cases and interactive states when relevant.
• Develop interactive prototypes to explore and validate new features, workflows, and interactions.
• Own design quality, completeness, and consistency for work delivered by the Bangalore design team.
• Ensure designs are production-ready, including edge cases, states, accessibility considerations, and engineering handoff.
• Collaborate closely with designers to co-design workflows, review work in progress, and maintain a shared quality bar for Capella UX.
• Balance speed, quality, and scalability when making design tradeoffs in a complex platform product.
• Partner with engineering early to clarify intent and constraints, reducing downstream design and implementation rework.
• Conduct lightweight, high-signal user research with developers and operators, and synthesize insights into actionable design decisions even when data is incomplete.
• Exercise sound design judgment and escalate cross-team UX decisions or tradeoffs when alignment cannot be reached.
• Give constructive design feedback and mentor junior designers.
• Maintain and evolve the Capella design system in partnership with engineering, ensuring consistency, scalability, and pragmatic adoption across teams.

• Experience designing products for specialized audiences such as developers, SREs, and DBAs; familiarity with database software is needed.
• Experience conducting user research and applying insights to design decisions.

• 8+ years experience as a UX or Product Designer, with a portfolio showcasing your best work.
• Proven ability to transform complex product briefs into simple, intuitive experiences.
• Strategic thinker who considers the big picture before diving into details and knows when to zoom out and when to zoom in. Understanding of systems thinking and the ability to factor in interdependencies between features.
• Excellent communication skills to articulate design concepts and rationale.
• Comfortable working in distributed teams and collaborating across time zones.
• Proficient with Figma and AI tools

Senior Software Engineer Key-Value Engine

The Key-Value Engine is the component at the center of the Couchbase universe. It is responsible for storing and managing data, delivering low latency ops at high scale, supporting intra and cross-cluster replication for high availability and replicating documents to downstream clients. 

You’ll be part of a team of high caliber individuals focused on improving performance and scale as you help us push back boundaries: such as a more flexible and powerful protocol, higher-performance caching, richer data structures, more scalable infrastructure and distributed transactions. You’ll work in C++ (and sometimes C), and from time-to-time read Golang, Erlang, and Python. You’ll work on problems that build on your knowledge of concurrency, networking and your software engineering skills to extract maximum performance from the hardware and kernel.

What Will You Do?

• With your team, you’ll help build the world’s fastest, most scalable, richly-functional key-value engine.
• Discuss and debate with your peers and Product Management as you determine key requirements and the architectural approach to get things built.
• Collaborate with Technical Support to help debug and resolve high-priority customer issues.
• Design and implement needle-mover features with simplicity, elegance and economy.
• Think quality and leverage. Develop high-quality software with unit, component, and end-to-end automation tests.

About You

• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience in an associated field.
• You’re a self-motivated, independent, and high-performance person. You learn quickly and you enjoy worthy challenges.
• You have very strong C++ skills and enjoy leveraging this powerful language to build high-performance, maintainable software systems. 
• You have 4+ years of experience writing production-quality C++ code.
• You’re an excellent communicator: specific, thoughtful and clear.
• You are a humble, emotionally intelligent person and a great teammate to collaborate with.
• You can balance producing elegant, efficient, high-quality code with a pragmatic approach that ensures timely delivery.