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Solutions Engineer

Couchbase Dubai, United Arab Emirates Posted: 20 Feb 2025

Financial

  • Estimate: $80k - $120k*
  • Zero income tax location

Accessibility

  • Fully Remote
  • Apply from abroad
  • Visa Provided

Requirements

  • Experience: Senior
  • English: Professional
  • Arabic: Fluent

Position

Every day we tackle new and exciting challenges to empower developers to build modern cloud, mobile, and edge applications that deliver a premium user experience. Couchbase delivers unmatched performance, scalability, flexibility, and financial value across cloud, on-premises, hybrid, mobile, and edge deployments. The database market is undergoing a generational shift, representing one of the largest opportunities in enterprise software due to trends such as digital transformation, acceleration to the cloud, and innovation at the edge.

Join Couchbase to be a part of this change, with the opportunity to learn and grow alongside some of the most innovative, passionate, and humble individuals in the database industry. We are looking for a Solutions Engineer to support our rapidly growing user community and help drive customer success.

Our Solutions (Pre-Sales) Engineers are the primary technical field experts, responsible for managing the technical components of sales engagements. This includes explaining Couchbase advantages, addressing customer challenges, and demonstrating how our solutions meet those challenges, while getting customers excited about our technology.

This specific role focuses on assisting customers who interact with our technology via application code and the application development process. It requires experience in presales, software development, and developing business solutions. Familiarity with one or more Enterprise Programming Languages and Solution Development methodologies is essential.

Responsibilities:

  • Consult with customers and prospects to define their challenges and identify opportunities.
  • Map challenges to the Couchbase Ecosystem and present sustainable business value.
  • Educate and act as a trusted advisor, challenging assumptions while delivering value.
  • Conduct technical and business discovery activities, including workshops and demonstrations.
  • Collaborate with the sales team on account strategy and identify new opportunities.
  • Manage acceptance criteria and issue resolution for customer Proof of Concepts (PoC) and Pilots.
  • Present engaging company/product presentations and demonstrations to various technical levels.
  • Stay informed about the competitive landscape and represent customer perspectives to Product Management and Engineering.
  • Create internal and external technical collateral, such as deployment architectures and best practices.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • 5+ years in a Pre-Sales/Customer-Facing/Consulting Role.
  • 2+ years of experience in software development or related industries.
  • Excellent presentation skills tailored to a diverse audience, including C-Suite executives.
  • Proficient in Arabic (native or fluent).
  • Strong programming skills in languages such as Java, Python, JavaScript, .NET, C, or SQL.
  • Experience with at least one major cloud service provider (AWS, Azure, GCP).
  • Skilled in solution design on major database platforms, including data modeling and query optimization.

Desirable Skills:

  • Knowledge of virtualization and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.).
  • Familiarity with NoSQL databases or high-performance distributed systems.
  • Experience in database platform development.

Why Couchbase? Couchbase’s mission is to simplify how developers and architects build, deploy, and consume modern applications. With our cloud database platform, Capella, we enable organizations to quickly create applications delivering premium customer experiences. We are trusted by more than 30% of the Fortune 100, and we offer a comprehensive benefits program recognizing the value you create.

Benefits include generous time off, wellness programs, financial planning options, career growth opportunities, and more. Couchbase is committed to being an equal opportunity employer, and we encourage all qualified applicants to apply.

This role presents an opportunity for contribution and growth in a dynamic, innovative environment focused on modern database solutions.

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About Couchbase

Couchbase delivers Capella, the cloud database platform for today’s modern applications. Capella enables developers and architects to quickly build the apps of the future and deliver always-on experiences to customers. Please be advised that Couchbase will never ask for personal information or any financial commitment from a candidate as a pre-employment requirement. All legitimate Couchbase communication regarding our recruitment processes comes from email addresses ending with @couchbase.com or through recognized professional networks, such as LinkedIn. To avoid any potential fraudulent activity, we’re requesting that all Couchbase applicants apply through our official Careers page at https://www.couchbase.com/careers/