MongoDB DBA

In the Managed Services department, customers rely on us to keep their MongoDB databases running smoothly, making us essential to the success of their business. With 24/7 support from world-class DBAs, we deliver high-quality service to Percona customers around the globe.

From managing incidents and outages to executing complex projects and providing proactive recommendations for environment improvements, our focus is always on customer satisfaction and delivering measurable business results.

What You Will Do

• Participate in the management and operations of customer's MongoDB deployments.

• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to database availability and performance.

• Plan, schedule, and perform technical tasks to deliver the best solutions on time.

• Deliver proactive tasks to improve the stability, performance, and fault tolerance of customer environments.

• Advanced performance tuning, including optimizing queries, indexing, and storage.

• Implement security best practices (RBAC, encryption, auditing).

• Proactively manage capacity planning, ensuring appropriate server sizing in anticipation of growth requirements.

• Collaborate with the backend, platform, infrastructure, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams to develop and contribute to automation, monitoring software, and other critical tools and scripts.

What You Have Done

Technical Skills

• 3+ years experience with MongoDB technology, ideally in a customer-facing role OR 5+ years experience with distributed software administration coupled with reasonably high MongoDB knowledge.

• Experience with MongoDB versions 3.0 through the latest release (version 8) is required.

• Strong knowledge of backup & recovery strategies.

• In-depth knowledge of MongoDB's storage engine, replication, sharding, indexing, and backup methodologies.

• Experience managing MongoDB environments across various infrastructures, including on-premise and major cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and GCP.

• Familiarity with Percona tools, such as Percona Monitoring and Management and Percona Backup for MongoDB, is a plus.

Non-Technical Skills

• Ability to independently assess the impact of issues on customer environments.

• Capable of executing approved change management and implementation plans.

• Adherence to incident management and operational procedures.

• Strong written communication skills in English.

• Ability to write clear, concise technical reports and documentation.

• Effective interpersonal skills to collaborate with internal teams and customers.

• Able to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Positive, helpful, and team-oriented attitude.

• Eagerness to learn and grow in database management systems.

• Willingness to contribute to the continuous improvement of operational processes

What Will Make You Stand Out

• Design and maintain large-scale multi-region Sharded Clusters and Replica Sets.

• Proficient in Linux environments (both RedHat and Debian distributions).

• Experience with MongoDB Atlas and Cloud Manager is highly desirable.

• Proven experience in cluster migration across datacenters, cloud environments, or hybrid setups, ensuring zero to minimal downtime.

• Experience with at least one major programming language (e.g., PHP, Java, Node.js, Go, Python, Ruby) and/or client application programming experience used with MongoDB is required.

• Optimize full-stack infrastructure, including Linux kernel/I/O tuning and Kubernetes-managed MongoDB deployments, for high availability and scalability.

• Proficient in developing and delivering presentations.

• Proficiency with at least one configuration management or automation tool such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Vagrant, or Terraform.

• Proven capacity to create scripts and automation playbooks, leveraging tools such as Bash, Python, and Ansible, to streamline routine database administration tasks.

Working Hours

We operate on a Follow the Sun support model with four global shifts. This position covers the EMEA shift (based in UTC time zone):

APAC shift: 12:30 AM – 6:30 AM UTC

EMEA shift: 6:30 AM – 12:30 PM UTC

US East shift: 12:30 PM – 6:30 PM UTC

US West shift: 6:30 PM – 12:30 AM UTC

Each team member is assigned on-call duties every other weekend, covering 12 hours on Saturday and 12 hours on Sunday. Some travel may be required for internal meetings.

Apply now and let’s build something amazing together! 🚀

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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