Senior Backend Software Engineer (Go/Observability) - Remote

Percona is looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer with deep expertise in Golang to join our open-source engineering team and help us continue building Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM). This is a senior individual contributor role for an engineer who thrives on solving challenging problems, is motivated by technical ownership, and is passionate about open-source innovation.

You will be contributing to further enhancing and extending PMM, a free and open-source platform for monitoring the performance of open-source SQL/NoSQL-based databases, servers, and cloud instances.

This is an amazing opportunity as we’re entering a new chapter for PMM development. The objectives are ambitious, the work is challenging, but that’s why it’s also fun and rewarding!

This is a remote role, allowing you to work from your home office while collaborating with a globally distributed team using modern online tools. You’ll be part of a fast-paced, high-quality engineering environment focused on delivering value to Percona and its worldwide user base. Occasional travel—typically once per year—may be expected for team meet-ups or company events.

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

• Collaborate intensely with other engineers, designers, and product managers

• 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

• Train, mentor and support other engineers

Your Experience

• Ability to work as a team player as well as independently in a fully remote environment

• 5+ years of experience in Golang or similar programming languages with strong programming fundamentals (C++, OO)

• Experience with databases, preferably MongoDB, MySQL or PostgreSQL (not expert, scaling, large deployment, cluster. Not operating. Any DB, ideally our stack

• Comfortable with Linux (basic usage as a programmer)

• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes

• Experience designing, building, and documenting APIs

• Experience writing and maintaining unit tests

• Fluent in written and verbal English language skills

What Will Make You Stand Out

• Experience in database monitoring and system observability in general

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

• Experience in leveraging and integrating AI/ML capabilities into software products

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

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

• Experience with Prometheus or VictoriaMetrics

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

• 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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