Percona
PostgreSQL Database Support Engineer - EMEA (Remote)
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Percona Support Role
Percona Support is a global, elite team of engineers who love getting to the bottom of weird and interesting database behavior. We understand our customers’ business needs and the nuances of their technical environments. This allows us to help our customers see the big picture and identify opportunities to improve their overall database infrastructures.
What You’ll Be Doing…
You’ll be teaming with some of the most well-known database experts in the industry who are even better teammates, friends, and mentors. You’ll have the opportunity to develop your own skills and become more powerful than you can possibly imagine… with databases.
This is not a boring, entry-level role where you’ll just be triaging the boring and monotonous.
Your main responsibility will be helping our customers’ DBA teams when they need expert assistance. You’ll do that by:
- Gathering relevant data
- Investigating issues
- Providing a detailed analysis of your findings in a digestible format by email, instant message, or voice
- Performing screen-sharing sessions to help them quickly navigate and resolve issues for more serious and production-impacting issues
When you’re not fixing things, you’ll be:
- Authoring new blog posts on interesting topics for our open-source community
- Answering questions on our forum
- Creating new articles in our customer-facing knowledge base for more frequently seen issues
- Hosting webinars, among other things
This is a remote role, so you can be located anywhere in the world. All you need is a decent, stable internet connection.
What Have You Done:
- Good hands-on knowledge of PostgreSQL, PostgreSQL Provided tools, and Contribution modules
- Skilled with some of the PostgreSQL ecosystem of tools and technologies
- Knowledgeable about performance tuning, query optimization, and index tuning
- Know-how of backup solutions such as pg_base_backup, pgBackRest, and WAL-G, etc, and also the Point-in-Time-Recovery
- Some experience with high availability solutions (replication, routers, proxies, etc)
- Exposure and practice with zero-downtime procedures
- Good understanding of monitoring requirements
- Demonstrable experience of administering Linux-based systems
- Ability to troubleshoot methodically, identifying and applying fixes for known errors, and when necessary, capacity to think outside of the box to resolve complex issues
- Self-taught and enthused to grow your skill set with new technologies as the industry continues to evolve
- Availability to travel for the occasional team meeting, conference, or customer visit
- Experience working with customers in English
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Very Desirable to Have:
- Related Kubernetes knowledge
What Would Make You Stand Out:
- MySQL knowledge
- Experience working in SLA-bound operations
- OpenSource Community contributions (could be a blog)
- Good practice with working over screen-sharing/phone
- Patroni / Repmgr / Stolon
- Cloud Services such as AWS and RDS, Azure, GCP
- Percona Monitoring & Management (PMM) and other monitoring tools
- Configuration management solutions such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef
- Good grasp of ANSI SQL 92 to 2016 and ability to write/rewrite SQL statements involving Window functions and recursive CTEs
- Indexing methods including Full-Text Indexing
- Contrib Modules of PostgreSQL
- Most popular extensions - pg_repack, pg_partman, pg_audit, etc
- Foreign Data Wrappers of PostgreSQL (postgres_fdw, oracle_fdw, tde_fdw, file_fdw, etc)
- Advanced Linux troubleshooting tools (gdb, perf, strace, bpftrace, tcpdump, etc)
- Experience programming in C
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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
- Various paid time off programs
- All your equipment for your remote office
- Funds for career development (external training, certifications, conferences)
- Ongoing connectivity allowances
- The opportunity to participate in our equity incentive plan
- Benefits that support a healthy work/life balance such as The Percona Adventure Team, Work-from-Anywhere, FlowDays, FryDays, and overall flexibility
- 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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