Principal Software Engineer - Capella Control Plane

Couchbase
San Jose
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 204,000 - 225,000Function: Software EngineeringExperience: 12+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Leadership","Mentoring","Communication","Collaboration","Problem-solving"]

Principal Software Engineer to serve as the cross-team technical authority for Capella’s Control Plane, shaping multi-cloud SaaS platform architecture and production outcomes. You will lead hands-on Golang development, design scalable distributed systems across AWS, GCP, and Azure, ensure reliability and observability, mentor engineers, and drive secure, high-performance platform capabilities at scale.

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Principal Software Engineer - Capella Control Plane

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Job Summary

Principal Software Engineer to serve as the cross-team technical authority for Capella’s Control Plane, shaping multi-cloud SaaS platform architecture and production outcomes. You will lead hands-on Golang development, design scalable distributed systems across AWS, GCP, and Azure, ensure reliability and observability, mentor engineers, and drive secure, high-performance platform capabilities at scale.
Location: San Jose
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Define and evolve the control plane architecture for scalability, reliability, performance, and security.
  • •Develop and deliver production-quality Golang code for Capella platform services, establishing coding standards, CI/CD practices, and design patterns.
  • •Architect and optimize multi-cloud deployments across AWS, GCP, and Azure, including VPC/VNet peering, load balancing, and secure connectivity.
  • •Define and implement monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting standards and own production outcomes including RCA and remediation.
  • •Lead design and delivery of core platform capabilities such as provisioning, lifecycle management, and security controls.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 204,000 - 225,000
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionRetirementLife Insurance

Key Requirements

  • •Expertise in Golang with proven experience building distributed, cloud-native systems.
  • •Strong knowledge of system design, high availability, fault tolerance, and performance tuning.
  • •Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure), including networking (VPCs, routing, load balancing, firewalls, private connectivity) and Kubernetes/container orchestration.
  • •Experience designing and building control plane and platform components for SaaS platforms at scale.
  • •Proven experience leading cross-team architecture and platform decisions in complex, ambiguous cloud and distributed systems environments.
Experience:12+ yearsCloudDistributed systemsNoSQL
Education:Bachelor's in Computer Science
Skills:LeadershipMentoringCommunicationCollaborationProblem-solving
Languages:English
Tech Stack:GolangKubernetesAWSGCPAzureVPCLoad balancingCI/CDWeb UI architecture

Company Brief

Couchbase
Develops a distributed NoSQL database platform that enables enterprises to build, deploy, and manage modern applications with high performance, scalability, and flexible data models across cloud and on-premises environments.
Industry: Data Infrastructure
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 100M to 250M
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Santa Clara, United States
Founded: 2011
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