Percona is hiring a
Database Performance Consultant, Remote - Worldwide
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Summary
The job is a remote Support Engineer position at Percona, a global open-source community leader specializing in PostgreSQL. The role involves assisting customers' DBA teams, writing blog posts, answering questions on the forum, creating articles for the customer-facing knowledge base, and hosting webinars.
Requirements
- Good hands-on knowledge of PostgreSQL
- 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
Responsibilities
- Helping our customers’ DBA teams when they need expert assistance by gathering relevant data and investigating issues to provide a detailed analysis of your findings in a digestible format
- Authoring new blog posts on interesting topics for the open-source community, answering questions on our forum, creating new articles in our customer-facing knowledge base for more frequently seen issues, and hosting webinars
Preferred Qualifications
Related Kubernetes knowledge
Benefits
- Flexible work hours and paid time off
- All your equipment for your remote office
- Funds for career development (external training, certifications, conferences)
- Opportunity to participate in an equity incentive plan
This job is filled or no longer available
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