Database Performance Consultant – PostgreSQL

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 320 people in almost 50 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.

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:
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 Will 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
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.