Percona is looking for a flexible and efficient Senior Software Engineer to join its Global Advanced Services team. You will work on database management and related solutions, doing both new feature development and bug fixing in close collaboration with our services teams.
You will work from your home office, using online tools and resources to contribute to a fast-moving and high-performing development environment for Percona and its customers.
Access to a reliable high-speed internet connection is required. Flexible work hours.
- Design, code, implement, and document improvements to a high standard
- Create and submit patches for review, perform periodic source code merges
- Perform root cause analysis of customer-impacting defects to provide the optimal solution
- Develop test cases for continuous integration deployment
- Participate in code and design reviews
- Diagnose and fix defects
- Create documentation about your work that is consumable and can be refined by our documentation team
- Share your knowledge by attending and speaking at related conferences and writing blog posts about your work, participating in our public forums
- Provide Support to our Services Teams
- Minimum 4 years of hands-on, production experience as a developer, including - related tools / build processes (e.g. pip, make/Jenkins, containers) in Linux environments.
- Self-motivated with a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations
- Distributed system development and/or database-related development
- Fluent in developer tools like git
- Shell scripting
- Working autonomously in a globally distributed organization
- Collaborating with open-source communities and colleagues via mailing lists, IRC, Slack, etc.
- Using collaboration/tracking tools like Jira/Notion
- Ability to speak, listen, and write effectively in fluent English
- Quick learner & great team player
- Database management knowledge
- Proven success working in a distributed environment
- Additional programming languages such as Go
- Web frontend development experience
- REST API creation
- Automation in Linux environments
- Test Driven Development
Percona is a respected thought leader in the open source community. We provide services and software for MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL and MariaDB to open source users globally.
Percona is remote-first and globally dispersed; we have colleagues in more than 40 countries. We offer a collaborative, highly-engaged culture where your ideas are welcome and your voice is heard. The growth and development of our staff is a top priority; we provide funding for training, certifications, conferences and more.
Discover what it means to work with some of the smartest people in the industry, who also know how to have fun and are always willing to lend a helping hand. We offer flexible hours, the ability to work remotely and the amazing experience of working with a multinational team of experts.
