Lead Security Engineer
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Couchbase
Job Description
Couchbase, the operational data platform for AI, empowers businesses to succeed by bringing data to life in new ways. Major market-leading companies rely on Couchbase for mission critical operational, analytical, mobile and AI workloads. Built to replace legacy infrastructure and fragmented data services, Couchbase empowers enterprises with a unified platform architected for performance, flexibility and global scale.
With Couchbase, organizations bring their data to life, launching game‑changing customer experiences, exploring the limitless potential of AI, and seamlessly extending applications from the cloud to the edge and beyond. Couchbase’s AI‑ready technology and enterprise partnership model eliminate complexity and reduce total cost of ownership, enabling teams to stay agile, innovative and secure.
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Lead Security Engineer
Couchbase — Bangalore, India | Information Security | Full-Time
About Couchbase
As industries race to embrace AI, traditional database solutions fall short of rising demands for versatility, performance, and affordability. Couchbase is leading the way with Capella, the developer data platform for critical applications in our AI world. By uniting transactional, analytical, mobile, and AI workloads into a seamless, fully managed solution, Couchbase empowers developers and enterprises to build and scale applications with unmatched flexibility, performance, and cost-efficiency—from cloud to edge. Trusted by over 30% of the Fortune 100, Couchbase is unlocking innovation, accelerating AI transformation, and redefining customer experiences. Come join our mission.
The Role
We are seeking a driven and versatile Lead Security Engineer to join Couchbase's global Information Security team as our first security hire in Bangalore. This is a unique opportunity to be foundational to Couchbase's 24x7 security coverage and grow alongside a world-class security organization.
You will be a broad contributor—supporting and partnering our Security Operations, GRC, Product and Application Security teams. Working closely with Engineering, Cloud, and GTM functions, you'll gain hands-on exposure across the full security lifecycle. This role is ideal for someone who thrives across disciplines, moves between strategic and tactical work with ease, and wants to help build something meaningful from the ground up.
As Couchbase's security presence in Bangalore grows, you will be instrumental in expanding timezone coverage for security monitoring, incident response, and compliance operations—serving as a key link in our global, follow-the-sun security model.
Key Responsibilities
Security Operations
- Lead and own the timezone-extended coverage for security monitoring, alert triage, and initial incident response as the primary regional point of contact for the global security model.
- Drive day-to-day security operations including threat detection, monitoring, and escalation using SIEM and other security tooling.
- Assist with vulnerability management workflows—identification, prioritization, and tracking remediation in collaboration with engineering and cloud teams.
- Contribute to the review and improvement of existing security processes and tooling, including SIEM, DLP, endpoint security, email security, and vulnerability management platforms.
- Support security incident response planning and execution, interfacing with Engineering, Cloud, and SOC teams during active incidents.
- Help maintain and improve business continuity and disaster recovery documentation and runbooks.
Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC)
- Contribute to GRC activities by focusing on audit evidence collection, documentation, and the continuous improvement of policies/standards under GRC team guidance.
- Assist with compliance initiatives including SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS,
