Percona takes pride in delivering stable and reliable software to our users. We are looking for a flexible and efficient SDET engineer to join our QA team. In this role, you will support our distributed engineering team by maintaining and improving the quality of our software products as part of the release process and in an ongoing fashion. This includes tasks such as analyzing and reporting defects captured by our automated testing frameworks, defining and implementing new test cases, and improving and scaling our testing capabilities and infrastructure.
You will work from your home office, using online tools and resources to contribute to a high-quality QA environment for Percona and its customers.
Some international travel will be involved for company-internal meetings and attending conferences. Access to a reliable high-speed internet connection is required. Flexible work hours. Laptop & Internet access provided.
What You Will Do:
Evaluate and improve Percona products and new features based on QA plans, locating product issues & bugs
Monitor and analyze/log failures of automated regression, performance, packaging, and/or other automated QA systems
Serve as a mentor to junior SDETs, guiding best practices in testing, coding, and debugging, particularly in large-scale distributed database systems.
Research and recommend tools, behaviors, and strategies for making testing better
Utilize scripting languages such as Shell or Python to enhance testing and improve automation
What You Have Done:
Solid debugging skills and experience (e.g., analyzing log files, cored dumps, spotting patterns)
Familiarity with database internals (replication, optimizer, storage engines)
Good knowledge of test methods in agile software development environments
Experience with tools for tracking and documenting development processes (git) is an advantage.
Solid Linux sysadmin skills (e.g., adding/removing software, enabling/disabling services, general Unix/Linux CLI tools)
Working with automation tools (CI/CD)
Automating tasks using Bash or Python
Experience with networking, hardware, file systems, server connectivity, etc.
Good communicator & fluent in written and spoken English
Quick learner and a great team player
What Will Make You Stand Out:
Previous exposure and experience in database-related technologies, for example, in a DBA, support, or development role
Experience in Linux systems administration
Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills
Working with tools like profiler, gdb, and strace for debugging
Experience with compiling/building/packaging/release engineering/yum/apt
Coding skills in any language, preferably C/C++ or Python
Previous experience with container or virtualization environments
Proven success working in a distributed environment
Supplemental MySQL technologies
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!
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What We Do
Percona is a leader in providing best-of-breed enterprise-class support, consulting, managed services, training and software for MySQL®, MariaDB®, MongoDB®, PostgreSQL® and other open source databases in on-premises and cloud environments. With Percona's open source database expertise, your business can avoid downtime and outages, meet expected customer experience, foster operational and developer collaboration, and manage enterprise risks through sound database architecture frameworks.
Our global experts are available 24x7x365 and have worked with over 3,000 clients worldwide – including the largest technology companies.
Percona is the champion of unbiased open source database solutions and provides the best solution for our customers regardless of their database architecture or platform. Our software is 100% free and open source, and is a drop-in replacement for MySQL and MongoDB databases.
Percona was founded in August 2006 by Peter Zaitsev and Vadim Tkachenko and now employs over 250 people (and growing!) located in almost 40 countries. Our large and diverse customer list boasts one of the highest renewal rates in the business. Our expertise is visible in our widely read Percona Database Performance blog and our book High Performance MySQL.
