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Senior Software Engineer - PostgreSQL

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.

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Percona is looking for a flexible and efficient Senior Software Engineer to join its Open Source Software Development team. You will work on the PostgreSQL open source database and related components, doing both new feature development and bug fixing in close collaboration with the upstream PostgreSQL Community.
Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL provides the best and most critical enterprise components from the open-source community in a single distribution, designed and tested to work together. You will work from your home office, using online tools and resources to contribute to a fast-moving and high-performing development environment for Percona and its customers. Access to a reliable high-speed internet connection is required. Flexible work hours.

What You Will Do:

  • Design, code, implement and document improvements to PostgreSQL and related components
  • Create and submit patches for review, perform periodic source code merges from other open source repositories
  • Perform root cause analysis of customer-impacting defects to provide the optimal solution
  • Develop test cases for continuous integration deployment
  • Participate in code and design reviews
  • Diagnose and fix defects in PostgreSQL and related components
  • Create documentation about your work that is consumable and can be refined by our documentation team
  • Be part of the PostgreSQL developer community, representing Percona as a PostgreSQL contributor
  • Share your knowledge by attending and speaking at related conferences and writing blog posts about your work, participating in our public forums

Your Experience:

  • Minimum 4 years of hands-on development experience and related tools / build processes (e.g. gcc/autoconf/automake)
  • Hands-on knowledge of PostgreSQL internals
  • Distributed system development and/or database server development
  • Fluent in developer tools like git, gcc, gdb
  • Scripting languages like Perl and Shell scripting
  • Working autonomously in a globally distributed organization
  • Collaborating with open source communities and colleagues via mailing lists, IRC, Slack, etc.
  • Using collaboration/tracking tools like Jira/Notion
  • Ability to speak, listen and write effectively in fluent English
  • Quick learner & great team player

What Will Make You Stand Out:

  • Being an active member of the PostgreSQL developer community
  • Having a track record of contributing to PostgreSQL or other open source projects
  • Proven success working in a distributed environment
  • Experienced conference speaker, technical blog writer, activity on public forums or mailing lists
Percona is a respected thought leader in the open source community. We provide services and software for MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL and MariaDB to open source users globally.
Percona is remote-first and globally dispersed; we have 350 people in 52 countries. We offer a collaborative, highly-engaged culture where your ideas are welcome and your voice is heard. The growth and development of our staff is a top priority; we provide funding for training, certifications, conferences and more.
Discover what it means to work with some of the smartest people in the industry, who also know how to have fun and are always willing to lend a helping hand. We offer flexible hours, the ability to work remotely and the amazing experience of working with a multinational team of experts.

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About the job

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May 16, 2024

Posted on

Mar 17, 2024

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Location requirements

Open to candidates from all countries.

Hiring timezones

Worldwide

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.

Employee benefits

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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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Percona

Company size

201-500

Founded in

2006

Chief executive officer

Peter Zaitsev

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