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