22 oct
Percona
Santiago
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 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.
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 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.
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.
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**:
- Good hands-on knowledge of both MySQL and InnoDB
- Be a skilled with some of the MySQL ecosystem of tools and technologies
- Knowledgeable about performance tuning, query optimization, & index tuning
- Know-how of backup solutions such as Xtrabackup, mydumper, etc, and also of 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
- 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
**It's a bonus if you have experience with these**:
- Experience working in SLA-bound operations
- OpenSource Community contributions (could be a blog)
- Good practice with working over screen-sharing/phone
- Galera / XtraDB Cluster / ProxySQL / Orchestrator
- 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
- Percona Toolkit suite
- MySQL DBA professional certifications
- MongoDB
- PostgreSQL
- MyRocks
- Kubernetes / OpenShift / Docker
- Advanced Linux troubleshooting tools (gdb, perf, strace, bpftrace, tcpdump, etc)
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 colleagues in more than 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 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.
**Percona's 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 bui
▶️ Database Performance Consultant/support Engineer
🖊️ Percona
📍 Santiago