Site Reliability Engineer

Couchbase; Manchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to enhance cloud operations and observability. In this role, you will develop and maintain key software features, ensuring reliability and performance of cloud offerings. You'll collaborate with talented engineers to create monitoring solutions that drive efficiency and innovation. This position offers a unique opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies and make a significant impact in a dynamic environment. If you're passionate about software engineering and cloud infrastructure, this role is perfect for you.

Benefits

Generous Time Off Program

Wellness Benefits

Financial Planning

Career Growth Opportunities

Fun Perks like Snacks and Ergonomic Setup

Qualifications

• 2+ years experience as a software developer.
• Proficiency with programming and scripting languages.
• Strong ability to write code and understand DSA concepts.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain software features in the Observability stack.
• Create and maintain monitoring dashboards for customer health.
• Collaborate with Engineering teams for monitoring requirements.

Skills

Go

Python

Java

Ruby

Linux

Debugging

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Grafana

Prometheus

Thanos

DataDog

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

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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.

Role Overview

At Couchbase, Site Reliability Engineers are hybrid software and systems engineers. They are the glue holding things together, whether that’s infrastructure / platform, tooling support for our cloud business or managing Observability posture for Couchbase. In this role the candidate we are looking for is for the Observability team which is responsible for maintaining Reliability, Availability and Serviceability for the entire Couchbase cloud offerings. You will be working as a Software Engineer developing and maintaining Couchbase monitoring stack which includes metrics pipeline, alerting, notifications and the likes. You will be working with many software engineers and teams to ensure our cloud offerings meet the monitoring needs. You will have an immediate impact on the day-to-day efficiency of cloud operations and an ongoing impact on growth.

Responsibilities

• Develop/maintain software features in the Observability stack which includes metrics pipeline, alerting, logging and notifications
• Create/maintain monitoring dashboards which gives insights to our customer cluster health
• Develop control plane features requiring observability needs
• High level of ownership and responsibility as we work on production environments to debug a problem
• Working knowledge of AWS services like EC2/EKS/SQS etc.
• Collaborate with the Engineering teams to gather requirements for monitoring and implementation
• Be creative and bring in efficient processes and solutions to enhance team productivity
• Demonstrate exceptional problem-solving skills, with an ability to identify and solve issues before they affect business productivity
• Roll up your sleeves to be a full stack engineer as we build end-end software solutions in the Observability domain
  
  

Requirements

• 2+ years experience as a software developer
• Proficiency with programming and scripting languages like Go, Python, Java, or Ruby
• Strong ability to write code, understands basic DSA concepts
• Proficiency with Linux operating systems
• Exposure to any one of the CSPs like AWS/Azure/GCP
• Working experience in Grafana, Prometheus, Thanos and/or DataDog
• Strong debugging skills to mitigate a production issue
  
  

Preferred Skills And Qualifications

• Experience with on-call rotations & incident management
• Experience in developing and managing Kubernetes clusters both self-managed (vanilla/plain k8s) & managed (preferably AWS EKS) will be a plus
• Proficiency with Databases such as Couchbase is a plus
• Exposure to front end development like ReactJS will be a plus
  
  

Why Couchbase?

Benefits

Modern customer experiences need a flexible cloud database platform that can power applications spanning from cloud to edge and everything in between. Couchbase’s mission is to simplify how developers and architects develop, deploy and consume modern applications wherever they are. We have reimagined the database with our fast, flexible and affordable cloud database platform Capella, allowing organizations to quickly build applications that deliver premium experiences to their customers– all with best-in-class price performance. More than 30% of the Fortune 100 trust Couchbase to power their modern applications and build innovative new ones. See our recent awards to learn why Couchbase is a great place to work.We are honored to be a part of the Best Places to Work Award for the Bay Area and the UK. Couchbase offers a total rewards approach to benefits that recognizes the value you create here, so that you in turn may best serve yourself and your family. Some benefits include:

• 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!
• Note: some programs are not applicable to all countries. Please discuss with a Couchbase recruiter to learn more.
  
  

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