Percona’s Technical Support team handles some of the most challenging and rewarding database issues in the world. Our global team of open source database experts thrives on complexity and cares deeply about empowering our customers. We are looking for a Support Supervisor to help us lead and grow this capability even further.
This role fits within a well-defined structure: you will report to a Support Manager and be directly responsible for a group of world-class Technical Support Engineers. Your focus will be on operational excellence, technical quality of service, and the growth and effectiveness of your team. You’ll help shape the day-to-day delivery of high-end, consultative support for open source database technologies like MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Valkey/Redis.
This is not a “call center” environment. Your engineers work on tough technical problems across a wide range of complex customer environments. You will guide, coach, and support them in solving these challenges, while ensuring they have the tools, processes, and culture they need to succeed. You will collaborate and coordinate with the Support management team and other departments to ensure operational excellence.
What You Will DoPeople & Team Leadership
Lead a high-performing team of Technical Support Engineers across time zones
Mentor and coach engineers through technical and non-technical challenges
Manage scheduling, coverage, escalations, and rotation planning
Promote accountability, learning, and consistency within your team
Operational Excellence
Drive continuous improvement in our operations and service delivery
Track KPIs such as SLA performance, response/resolution times, CSAT, and internal process adherence
Identify and address performance gaps through structured feedback and support
Partner with other supervisors and managers to ensure seamless global operations
Customer & Technical Quality
Oversee ticket quality, communication, and customer satisfaction
Participate in escalation handling, ensuring timely and effective outcomes
Promote knowledge sharing via documentation, internal mentoring, and retrospectives
Stay informed at a high level on relevant technologies and industry shifts
Worked with open source technologies (especially databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Valkey/Redis)
Supervised or participated in customer-facing teams in a high-expectation environment
Mentored others in both soft skills and technical troubleshooting
Balanced the needs of customers, employees, and company goals
Comfort working across time zones and cultures
Prior experience as a Technical Support Engineer or DBA
Experience managing or leading remote or globally distributed teams
Strong technical depth in Linux and open source databases
Familiarity with Percona software such as PMM and related technologies
This is a fully remote role. Work will occur primarily during APAC business hours. Occasional international travel (1–3 times per year) may be required for team meetings or events.
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.
