Go Backend Software Engineer II

Percona is looking for a remote full-time Backend Software Engineer to join its Open Source Software Development team and help continue building Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM).

You will be contributing to further enhancing and extending the PMM product, which is a free and open-source platform for monitoring and managing the performance of SQL/NoSQL based databases and servers or cloud instances. You will focus on backend development of the product which includes GO programming of key features and APIs. You will leverage and utilize cloud and container technologies while looking to leverage the latest tooling and techniques.

What You Will Do

• Develop scalable, high-volume, performant applications focused on simplicity and user delight

• Produce high-quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed and checked in regularly for continuous integration

• Brainstorm with designers, architects and product managers to build and tweak functionalities

• Participate in code and design reviews, teaching and learning from other engineers

• Identify and uphold engineering best practices

• Identify, leverage, and successfully evangelize opportunities to improve engineering productivity

Your Experience

• 3+ years backend development (GO, Python/Java/C#/C++/C and etc) with strong programming fundamentals

• Test-driven and test automation first advocate

• Experience with MongoDB, MySQL,PostgreSQL or Redis/Valkey

• Comfortable with Linux (basic usage as a programmer)

• Fluent English written and verbal language skills

• Ability to work as a teamplayer as we sell as independently in a fully remote environment

• Development experience on cloud computing platform (AWS, Azure or OpenShift)

• Familiarity with version control systems (Git)

• Experience designing, building, and documenting APIs

• Knowledge of asynchronous programming

• Experience with Agile development methodologies

What Will Make You Stand Out

• Experience with Golang

• Knowledge of other databases/data stores (Memcached, ClickHouse)

• Deep knowledge security and encryption techniques for transmitting and storing sensitive data

• Experience with continuous deployment to cloud / virtualized environments (DevOps)

• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes

• Experience with Prometheus or VictoriaMetrics

• BS/MS/PhD in an engineering field or equivalent experience

• Experience writing and maintaining unit tests

• Open source development experience

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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