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Customer Success Advisor
Strategic Purpose
As a Customer Success Advisor, you are the dedicated technical partner for our most strategic enterprise accounts. Operating within the Customer Success organization, you bridge the gap between reactive support and proactive architectural guidance. Your mission is to de-risk mission-critical applications by building deep familiarity with a customer’s specific environment—their data systems, topology, and engineering teams—to ensure long-term stability and success on the Couchbase platform.
Key Responsibilities
Proactive Architectural Guidance
- Upgrade Planning & Execution: Lead the planning and advisory for Enterprise Edition (EE) upgrades, identifying technical hurdles early to ensure smooth transitions.
- Environment Maintenance: Maintain detailed documentation of customer implementation details, including architecture diagrams, version numbers, and topology info.
- Technical Health Boosting: Perform regular architecture reviews and performance tuning to identify trends and develop action plans that prevent "Technical Churn”.
- Strategic Reviews: Lead and own technical action items for Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) and weekly case reviews to align Couchbase outcomes with customer business goals.
Reactive Stability & Incident Management
- Support Orchestration: Work alongside Support Engineering during active incidents, providing the deep architectural context necessary to expedite resolution.
- Customer Communication: Act as the primary point of contact for technical communications during a support ticket’s lifecycle, keeping customer teams informed on progress.
- Post-Incident Management: Own the post-incident recovery process, involving the Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and recommending medium-to-long term fixes to prevent recurrence.
Voice of the Customer
- Product Advocacy: Serve as an interface to Product Management and Engineering,advocating for customer requirements and feeding real-world feedback back into the roadmap.
- Team Collaboration: Partner closely with Customer Success Managers (CSMs) and Account Teams to identify expansion opportunities and ensure the value of the Platinum Support tier is fully realized.
Skills & Abilities
- Deep Technical Fluency: Expert-level knowledge of NoSQL concepts, Couchbase Server (EE), and Capella (DBaaS).
- Architectural Vision: Ability to understand complex, end-to-end distributed systems and document them clearly for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Collaborative Problem-Solving: Proven ability to navigate high-pressure support situations while maintaining professional, trust-based relationships with customer engineering teams.
- Strategic Thinking: Capability to translate technical performance and reliability metrics into business impact and long-term stability for revenue-critical applications.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience: 3+ years in Solutions Architecture, Professional Services, or Technical Account Management, specifically within the enterprise software space.
- Domain Expertise: Proven track record of managing and optimizing large-scale distributed database deployments.
- Couchbase Values: A commitment to being a "Guardian" of customer success, modeling a proactive mindset that moves beyond transactional ticket handling.Success Metrics
Measures of success (12-18 months)
- Resolution Velocity: Significant reduction in the time-to-resolution for complex customer support tickets through the application of deep account context.
- Upgrade Success Rate: 100% successful execution of planned customer upgrades with zero unplanned downtime.
- Technical Churn Prevention: 0% churn attributed to unaddressed technical blockers or recurring architectural issues.
- Customer Satisfaction: High satisfaction scores from strategic technical champions within assigned accounts regarding proactive guidance and incident communication.
The anticipated starting base pay range for this role is listed below. Base salary is not the only component of our competitive total rewards package - you may also be eligible for bonus, commissions, equity, and other benefits as described below. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location.Base Pay Range
$130,000—$152,000 USD
At Couchbase, we believe innovation thrives when diverse perspectives are at the table. We actively encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds—including women, people of color, LGTBQIA+ professionals, veterans, and individuals with disabilities. If you see a role that excites you, but don’t meet every qualification, we still encourage you to apply.
Studies show underrepresented talent is less likely to apply unless they meet all the criteria. We encourage you to apply if you’re excited about the role and can bring strong contributions to our team.
If you require reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let your recruiter know—we’re happy to support you.
We value diverse educational and career backgrounds. If your experience aligns with the role’s goals—even if it doesn’t follow a traditional path—we’d love to hear from you.
Why Couchbase?
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 - 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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