Database Reliability Engineer

Job Description

Who is Percona?

Percona is a respected thought leader in the open-source community. We provide services and software for MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL and Maria DB to open-source users globally. Percona is remote-first and globally dispersed; we have 250 people in almost 40 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 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.

The Percona Support Team… 

Percona Support is a global, elite team of engineers who love getting to the bottom of weird and interesting database behaviour. We understand our customer’s 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.

 What you’ll be doing… 

You’ll be teaming up 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 repetitive 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.

You’ll stand out if you have the following:

•  Exceptional knowledge of both MySQL and InnoDB
• Be a wizard with databases and associated technical configurations
• Knowledgeable about performance tuning, query optimization, & index tuning
• Experience with backup solutions such as XtraBackup, & MyDumper
• Experience with HA solutions such as MHADetailed understanding of monitoring requirements
• Demonstrable experience in 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
• Enthused to expand your skillset with new technologies as the industry continues to evolveAvailability to travel for the occasional team meeting, conference and customer visit
• Excellent written and spoken English and ability to work effectively with English-speaking customers

It’s a bonus if you have experience with these:

• Excellent knowledge of both RDBMSs and MongoDB, including:
• All aspects of configuration and best practices
• Schema design, performance tuning, query optimization, & index tuning
• Backup solutions
• Replica set and sharding topologiesEngine selection and usage
• Detailed understanding of monitoring requirements
• Galera / XtraDB Cluster, & HAProxy
• Cloud Services such as AWS and RDS or hosting providers like Rackspace
• Nagios, Percona Monitoring Plugins (PMM) and other monitoring tools
• Configuration management solutions such as Ansible, Puppet or Chef
• Percona Toolkit suite
• MySQL DBA Professional Certifications
• PostgreSQL
• MyRocks 
• Kubernetes / OpenShift / Docker

Percona Lifestyle:

·       Enjoy the freedom to work remotely from anywhere in the world!

·       With top talent sourced globally, you will enjoy an international and culturally diverse team

·       Flexibility in your working hours means you can prioritize your personal life, pursue hobbies, volunteer, and stay active

·       Our internal programs include groups like: 

·       The Percona Adventure Team: This team embarks on unforgettable journeys to breathtaking locations around the world for activities such as mountain climbing, hiking, white water rafting and more. 

·       Women Transforming Technology is a grassroots program committed to building a supportive community of women in technology. Their goals are to connect, empower and inspire women in all areas and levels of the organization.

·       Flow days: Fridays at Percona are for focusing on finding your workflow. Meetings and distractions are limited on Fridays so you can focus on getting things done.

·       FryDays:  With Percona being so globally dispersed there are not many holidays that overlap for everyone. FryDays are four Fridays each year where everyone at Percona can unplug and enjoy the same 3-day weekend.

Our staff receives generous benefits including flexible work hours and paid time off, all your equipment for your remote office, funds for career development (external training, certifications, conferences) and the opportunity to participate in an equity incentive plan.

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Location:  Remote, work-from-home position anywhere. 5 day work week may include a weekend day. You will need to be able to travel to company events, conferences, etc.