Database Performance Consultant

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