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Senior Software Engineer– XDCR (Santa Clara, CA, US)
Couchbase is a growing company making people’s lives better every day. If you are looking for a place where you can directly make an impact to improve the lives of the many customers using the next generation database, grow your technical knowledge as the product evolves to tackle next generational challenges, and work with great people that care about putting the best foot forward, then this is the place for you.
As a key contributing member of the Cross-Data-Center-Replication (XDCR) development team, you will be responsible for solving technical challenges related to synchronizing large-scale distributed database systems, for both Couchbase Server and Couchbase Capella. You will directly solve and optimize complex distributed system problems. 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.
Responsibilities:
- Develop features that enhance and improve XDCR 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.
- 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.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
- 5-7 years of development experience on enterprise system software.
- Proficient in Golang (preferred), Java or C++/C.
- Proficient in Bash or Python scripting.
- Thorough understanding of file-systems fundamentals.
- Experience of working on System Software related to OS principles such as multithreading and synchronization.
- Experience in working directly on Distributed Systems and solving Distributed Systems problems preferred.
- Experience in working on applications that deals directly with Computer Networking is preferred.
- Experience with stream-based replication is preferred.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) is a plus.
This is an Office based role and the selected candidate should agree to work from the Santa Clara Office.
- 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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