Are you an experienced VP of Engineering who excels at driving transformative change? Percona, a leading provider of open-source database software and services, is seeking a technical VP of Engineering to join our team. This isn't a VP of Engineering role focused on managing a single product or team; rather, you'll be a key leader in orchestrating technical excellence across multiple engineering groups.
This is a fully remote position, and you'll have the opportunity to work alongside a diverse, global team of passionate open-source enthusiasts. You're a high-level strategic thinker with a keen eye for technical detail, and you're not afraid to roll up your sleeves to identify and solve complex problems.
What You’ll Do
Lead Technical Transformation: Drive initiatives that improve quality, efficiency, and reliability across engineering. Optimize our SDLC and help teams leverage AI to boost productivity and innovation.
Mentor & Coach: Guide engineering leaders and senior ICs to achieve technical and professional growth.
Define & Evangelize Best Practices: Establish and promote standards, processes, and technical excellence across the organization.
Strategic Planning: Partner with executive leadership and product management to align technical direction with company goals.
What We’re Looking For
Extensive Leadership Experience: 5+ years in engineering leadership with strong architecture and technical strategy experience. (Database internals knowledge is a plus.)
Open Source Mindset: Hands-on experience in the open-source ecosystem — you understand its culture, challenges, and opportunities.
Technical Acumen: Deep understanding of modern software development, open-source technologies, databases, and cloud-native architectures.
Transformational Leadership: Proven success leading large-scale technical and process improvements across multiple teams or business units.
Excellent Communication: Skilled at explaining complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Collaborative Spirit: Thrives in a remote, distributed environment and builds strong relationships across all levels of the organization.
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.
