Percona is looking for a flexible and efficient C/C++ Software Engineer to join its Open Source Software Development team.
You will work on the Percona Server for MySQL, Percona XtraBackup, Percona XtraDB Cluster and Oracle MySQL.
You will work from your home office, using online tools and resources to contribute to a fast moving and high quality development environment for Percona and its customers. Travel approximately once per year for meetings. Access to a reliable high-speed internet connection is required.
Flexible work hours. Laptop & Internet access are provided.
What You Will Do:
Design and implement new features and improvements
Diagnose and fix defects in Percona Server for MySQL, Percona XtraBackup, Percona XtraDB Cluster and Oracle MySQL products
Perform periodic source code merges from other open source repositories
Contribute to upstream projects that we leverage to bring our own solutions to the community
Develop test cases for continuous integration deployment
Participate in code and design reviews
Mentor and guide other team members in their own career development
Blog, present and evangelize our software to help increase adoption and keep our thriving community growing
Engage with other departments in Percona to ensure we’re delivering value driven solutions
What Have You Done:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
Ability to speak, listen and write effectively in fluent English
Minimum 2+ years of experience in C/C++ development and object oriented design
Strong understanding of SQL databases, preferably MySQL
Strong understanding of DBMS internal algorithms such as those used in query optimiser, B-tree indexing, multiversion concurrency control, ARIES crash recovery, and others
Strong understanding of compression and encryption algorithms and techniques
Experience with client/server or distributed network communication systems
Experience with high concurrency threading models, atomics, and locking primitives
Knowledge of various programming and scripting languages such as BASH, Perl, and Python
Proficiency with tools like gdb and strace
Proficiency with git, github, and source code management methodologies
Knowledge of Open Source software concepts and community
What Will Make You Stand Out:
Knowledge of high-performance algorithms on modern multicore hardware
Established history of driving performance enhancements
Proven experience in implementing features in Databases
Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery tools such as Jenkins, CircleCI, and Travis
Experience with issue tracking, communication, and information sharing tools such as JIRA, G-Suite, Slack
Experience/familiarity with various Linux distribution packaging systems
Experience with virtualization and containment tools such as OpenVZ, VirtualBox, Docker, Kubernetes, etc
Experience in Linux systems administration, including suitable expertise with file systems, hardware, and networking
Success working in a distributed environment where e-mail, Slack, and voice calls are the only interactions with clients, colleagues, and managers on a daily basis
Ability to work autonomously and mostly asynchronously with the rest of the team
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.
