Percona is hiring a
MongoDB Database Support Engineer

Summary

The job is for a MongoDB Engineer at Percona, a remote-first company that provides services for open-source databases. The role involves providing technical support for MongoDB, assisting fellow engineers, content creation, collaboration, and influencing product strategy.

Requirements

Excellent knowledge of both RDBMS's and MongoDB, including all aspects of configuration and best practices, schema design, performance tuning, query optimization, index tuning, backup solutions, replica set and sharding topologies, engine selection and usage, detailed understanding of monitoring requirements, demonstrable experience of administering Linux based systems, knowledge about virtualized environments such as VMWare, Docker and/or Kubernetes, knowledge about cloud providers (AWS, Google Cloud, Digital Ocean and/or Azure), ability to troubleshoot methodically, writing Python and golang is preferred, hands on experience of MySQL (Minimum 2+ years)

Responsibilities

• Provide professional technical support services for MongoDB
• Assist fellow support engineers
• Lead content creation
• Collaborate with other departments
• Impact product strategy

Preferred Qualifications

• Percona Backup for MongoDB
• Experience with MongoDB Atlas
• Postgres DBA troubleshooting (basic level or higher)
• Nagios, Percona Monitoring Plugins and other monitoring tools
• Configuration management solutions such as Ansible, Puppet or Chef
• Percona Toolkit suite

Benefits

• Flexible work hours
• Paid time off
• Equipment for remote office
• Funds for career development (external training, certifications, conferences)
• Participation in an equity incentive plan