Percona is looking for a flexible and efficient Senior Software Engineer to join its Open Source Software Development team. You will work on the PostgreSQL open-source database and related components, doing both new feature development and bug fixing in close collaboration with the upstream PostgreSQL Community.
Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL provides the best and most critical enterprise components from the open-source community, in a single distribution, designed and tested to work together.
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.
What You Will Do:
Design, code, implement and document improvements to PostgreSQL and related components
Create and submit patches for review, perform periodic source code merges from other open source repositories
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 in PostgreSQL and related components
Create documentation about your work that is consumable and can be refined by our documentation team
Be part of the PostgreSQL developer community, representing Percona as a PostgreSQL contributor
Share your knowledge by attending and speaking at related conferences and writing blog posts about your work, participating in our public forums
Your Experience:
Minimum 4 years of hands-on development experience and related tools / build processes (e.g. gcc/autoconf/automake)
Hands-on knowledge of PostgreSQL internals
Distributed system development and/or database server development
Fluent in developer tools like git, gcc, gdb
Scripting languages like Perl and 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
What Will Make You Stand Out:
Being an active member of the PostgreSQL developer community
Having a track record of contributing to PostgreSQL or other open source projects
Proven success working in a distributed environment
Experienced conference speaker, technical blog writer, activity on public forums or mailing lists
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.
