Director, AI Engineering

The role

This leader will own the strategy, architecture, delivery, and operational excellence of Couchbase AI Cloud Platform capabilities. You will lead a large, multi-layered engineering organization responsible for delivering the Operational Data Platform for AI.

What you will do

• Lead and grow high-performing engineering teams focused on building the Operational Data platform for AI.
• Drive architectural decisions for multiple platform capabilities at the intersection of Databases, PaaS and AI.
• Ensure production-grade scalability for large-scale workloads.
• Partner closely with Product, Field, Support, and Customer Success to deliver differentiated enterprise AI capabilities.
• Balance innovation with operational rigour and ensuring reliability, performance, and security standards are met.
• Build strong cross-functional collaboration with core database, storage, and cloud infrastructure teams.
• Partner Cross-Functionally at the Executive Level
• Manage Risk, Investment, and Efficiency
• Mentor engineering managers and senior technical leaders to build a strong leadership team.
• Drive Execution Excellence at Scale by establishing metrics and KPIs for engineering performance, reliability, and productivity.

Required qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in software engineering
• 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 Vector search and indexing
• Hands-on familiarity with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
• Hands-on familiarity with Embedding pipelines
• Hands-on familiarity with LLM and inference systems
• Hands-on familiarity with 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

Benefits

• Generous Time Off
• World-class medical, dental, vision, mental health, life insurance, and employee assistance programs
• Competitive retirement plans
• Business travel coverage
• Career Growth
• Ergonomic setups for both WFH and in-office employees
• Snacks and meals when in the office

About the company

Couchbase is the operational data platform for AI. It provides a unified platform architected for performance, flexibility and global scale.