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PostgreSQL Database Support Engineer - AMERICAS

Percona is an industry leader in providing elite services, training and software for MySQL®, MariaDB®, MongoDB®, PostgreSQL® and other open-source databases in on-premises and cloud environments.

Percona

Employee count: 201-500

AR, BR + 3 more

Percona Support is a global, elite team of engineers who love getting to the bottom of weird and interesting database behaviour. 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.

*THIS ROLE IS BASED IN THE AMERICAS TIME ZONE*

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 and investigating issues to provide a detailed analysis of your findings in a digestible format by email, instant message or voice. For more serious and production-impacting issues, you’ll perform screen-sharing sessions to help them quickly navigate and resolve issues.

When you’re not fixing things, you’ll be authoring new blog posts on interesting topics for our open-source community to digest, answering questions on our forum, creating new articles in our customer-facing knowledge base for more frequently seen issues, and hosting webinars amongst 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

  • Be a skilled with some of the PostgreSQL ecosystem of tools and technologies

  • Knowledgeable about performance tuning, query optimization, & 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

  • 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

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!

Connect with us and stay up to date on our latest news and developments by following us on LinkedIn and Twitter. We look forward to connecting with you!

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Full Time

Experience level

Mid-level

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Argentina +/- 0 hours, and 4 other timezones

About Percona

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Percona is an industry leader in providing elite services, training and software for MySQL®, MariaDB®, MongoDB®, PostgreSQL® and other open-source databases in on-premises and cloud environments. Our services and software accommodate rapid growth and application development, help companies develop and deploy agile solutions and improve your ability to keep up with customer needs.

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.

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Company retreats

Annual regional team meetings so you can meet everyone in person.

Generous vacation

We provide a generous paid-time-off package. We care about the work you produce, not just the location or time zone you work in.

Work-life balance

Percona is a privately owned company, with flexible hours, providing you time to spend with your family, volunteer, work out, or take time for external hobbies.

Home office budget

Since you work remotely, you can expense up to $3,000 every three years to obtain up-to-date laptops and accessories. We will also cover your mobile phone and home broadband bills up to $150 per month

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Company size

201-500 employees

Founded in

2006

Chief executive officer

Peter Zaitsev

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