A leading open-source database company is seeking a Senior PostgreSQL Database Engineer to join their remote team. This role entails solving customer's complex database issues, mentoring, and contributing to the community through blog posts. The ideal candidate should have advanced knowledge of PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, and Linux systems, along with a passion for open-source technologies. You will work with high-profile clients, ensuring their databases run optimally. #J-18808-Ljbffr
Join to apply for the Senior PostgreSQL Database Engineer (Remote) role at Percona . Percona Support is a global team of elite engineers who love getting to the bottom of weird and interesting database behavior. We understand our customers’ business needs and the nuances of their technical environments. This allows us to help our customers see the big picture and identify opportunities to improve their overall database infrastructures. What You’ll Do You will team with some of the most well‑known database experts in the industry who are even better teammates, friends, and mentors. You’ll have the opportunity to hone your database skills and take your knowledge to the next level by facing the most complex problems within our group. This is a senior role, requiring deep expertise and skill across several complex and challenging technical areas. You must be self‑directed, with a high degree of attention to detail and critical thinking. You will have the opportunity to work with very large hardware on some of the most massive database deployments in the world, helping global Fortune 50 companies whose businesses depend on their databases. Your main responsibility will be helping our customers’ DBA teams when they need expert assistance with high complexity problems. You’ll gather relevant data and investigate issues to provide a detailed analysis of your findings in a digestible format by email, instant message, or voice. For more serious and production‑impacting issues, you will perform screen‑sharing sessions to help them quickly navigate and resolve issues . When you’re not solving customer problems, you’ll be authoring new blog posts on interesting topics for our open‑source community to digest, answering questions on our forum, creating new articles in our customer‑facing knowledge base, and more. This is a remote role, so you can be located anywhere in the world provided you can work the targeted hours. All you need is a decent, stable internet connection. What Have You Done You have deep, hands‑on, expert knowledge of PostgreSQL, including PostgreSQL provided tools and contributor modules You are proficient with the wider PostgreSQL ecosystem of tools and technologies, such as pgvector, repmgr, barman, pglogical, Patroni, pgBouncer, and similar/related tools You have experience with performance tuning, including server configuration, query optimization, and table and index tuning You are familiar with backup solutions and best practices including pg base backup, pgBackRest and WAL‑G, Point‑in‑Time‑Recovery, etc. You are experienced with high availability solutions, including replication, routers, proxies, etc. You have demonstrable experience administering Linux systems You have experience with containerization and Kubernetes, including deployment, administration, and troubleshooting problems encountered when using PostgreSQL under that environment You are able to troubleshoot methodically, identifying and applying fixes for known errors, and when necessary, demonstrating a capacity to think outside of the box to resolve complex issues You are self‑taught, self‑directed, and enthusiastic about growing your skillset with new technologies as the industry evolves You are available to travel internationally for occasional team meetings, conferences, or customer visits You are fluent in communicating with customers in English, both in verbally and in writing What Will Make You Stand Out Software development experience, including specifically C, C++, and Go, in order to understand the internal workings of PostgreSQL, Percona’s Operator for PostgreSQL, and related technologies Advanced Linux troubleshooting tools (gdb, perf, strace, bpftrace, tcpdump, etc) Experience with Percona’s other core database products, including MySQL, MongoDB, and Valkey/Redis Prior experience using Percona’s software, including PMM and our database distributions Experience working in SLA‑bound technical support operations OpenSource Community contributions Prior success working remotely and using screen‑sharing, phone, Slack, Zoom, and similar technologies in that environment Experience with cloud services such as AWS and RDS, Azure, GCP Excellent grasp of ANSI SQL 92 to 2016 and ability to write/rewrite SQL statements involving Window functions and recursive CTEs Indexing methods including Full‑Text Indexing Experience with the foreign data wrappers of PostgreSQL (postgres_fdw, oracle_fdw, tde_fdw, file_fdw, etc.) Active desire to serve as a subject matter expert and mentoring resource within Percona Support on topics related to this position Kubernetes‑related certifications and training Why Percona At Percona, we believe an open world is a better world. Our mission is to enable everyone to innovate freely, by providing the best open‑source database software, support, and services. We make databases and applications run better through a unique combination of expertise and open‑source software built with the community for you. Our technical teams are experts in MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and MariaDB. Percona is proud to be a remote‑only and globally dispersed workforce – we have colleagues in more than 50 countries! We offer a collaborative, highly‑engaged culture where your ideas are welcome and your voice is heard. Our staff receives generous benefits including flexible work hours and various paid time off programs, all your equipment for your remote office, funds for career development (external training, certifications, conferences), ongoing connectivity allowances, and the opportunity to participate in our equity incentive plan. We also have benefits that support a healthy work/life balance such as The Percona Adventure Team, Work‑from‑Anywhere, FlowDays, FryDays, and overall flexibility. We also support being socially responsible through our PAVE volunteering program and Women Transforming Technology. If you love the idea of working with a high‑growth tech company that is one of the best in the business and known globally as a leader in the open‑source database space, let’s talk! Connect with us and stay up to date on our latest news and developments by following us on LinkedIn and Twitter. We look forward to connecting with you! Seniority Level Mid‑Senior level Employment Type Full‑time Job Function Information Technology Industries Software Development Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Percona by 2x. #J-18808-Ljbffr
A leading open-source database company is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead a distributed team of developers and testers. This remote role emphasizes effective software delivery and team development. Candidates should possess over 5 years of experience in team management, strong programming skills in languages like Go and React, and excellent communication abilities. The company offers flexible work hours, career development funds, and an engaging collaborative culture. #J-18808-Ljbffr
We’re looking for a Software Development Manager to join our engineering team and help continue building out our Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) product. PMM is a free and open-source client/server platform for monitoring and managing the performance of SQL/NoSQL databases and servers, or cloud instances. The Software Development Manager will lead the team that will continue building our flagship product and partner with our other engineering teams, which deliver critical open-source database distributions. We’re looking for an experienced manager who can grow our distributed work-from-home team (staff and contractors). We need someone with a background in developing efficient processes, selecting the right tools, and ensuring a high pace of delivery, as well as a demonstrated track record of working across teams to ensure that vital information is not lost, given that complex development requirements span multiple teams. At Percona, people are our most vital asset, so you should be someone who continually invests in helping them improve every day. What You Will Do Remotely build and manage a distributed team of 10 developers and testers ranging from experienced to very senior Drive software delivery through championing team velocity, predictability, and accountability Ensure reliable delivery by managing scope, workload, addressing blockers and resource changes Develop people through coaching, mentoring, and management support Conduct regular 1:1, goal-setting, and feedback conversations with direct reports to ensure team health and individual growth Work with development teams, product managers, product owners, and others to maintain high levels of transparency, efficiency, collaboration and set context with the team so they are empowered and equipped to make great business and engineering-informed decisions Continually find ways to improve processes and efficiencies through technology and automation Strong ownership of team results, building on the good and taking corrective action on the bad What You Have Done 5+ years of experience leading and managing development teams Experience managing an agile engineering team that has been responsible for multiple products in an environment where they are either shipped to end users or hosted as a single Web/SaaS application (huge plus if you’d lead a team that delivered both) Software Development experience is a must! We use Go and React, but you should have at least Java/Python/Angular/JavaScript or similar experience A cross-team facilitator: working with other teams and figuring out how to get things running more smoothly Knowledgeable about open source software High level of organization with a proven ability to prioritize, manage, budget, and deliver on time Excellent English communication skills, both verbal and written Experience in project management with the ability to decompose complicated projects into simple tasks, estimate and manage risks Self-directed with the ability to operate independently without needing everyday input Maturity to build relationships and operate across the organization (not locked to only operate in the vertical chain) Location: Remote, work-from-anywhere role, with a large portion of the broader team based in Eastern Europe. Why Percona? At Percona, we believe an open world is a better world. Our mission is to enable everyone to innovate freely, by providing the best open source database software, support, and services. We make databases and applications run better through a unique combination of expertise and open source software built with the community for you. Our technical teams are experts in MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and MariaDB. Percona is proud to be a remote-only and globally dispersed workforce – we have colleagues in more than 50 countries! We offer a collaborative, highly-engaged culture where your ideas are welcome and your voice is heard. Our staff receives generous benefits including flexible work hours and various paid time off programs, all your equipment for your remote office, funds for career development (external training, certifications, conferences), ongoing connectivity allowances, and the opportunity to participate in our equity incentive plan. We also have benefits that support a healthy work/life balance such as The Percona Adventure Team, Work-from-Anywhere, FlowDays, FryDays, and overall flexibility. We also support being socially responsible through our PAVE volunteering program and Women Transforming Technology. If you love the idea of working with a high-growth tech company that is one of the best in the business and known globally as a leader in the open-source database space, let’s talk! Connect with us and stay up to date on our latest news and developments by following us on LinkedIn and Twitter. We look forward to connecting with you! #J-18808-Ljbffr
