MySQL Database Support Engineer

Summary

The job is a remote position in the Percona Support Team, where the employee will provide expert assistance to customers' DBA teams and contribute to the open-source community. The ideal candidate should have good hands-on knowledge of MySQL, InnoDB, performance tuning, query optimization, index tuning, backup solutions, high-availability solutions, and Linux-based systems.

Requirements

• Good hands-on knowledge of both MySQL and InnoDB
• 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 in 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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
• 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
• MySQL DBA professional certifications
• MongoDB
• PostgreSQL
• MyRocks
• Kubernetes / OpenShift / Docker

Benefits

• Flexible work hours
• 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