Percona is hiring a
Senior Software Engineer in Worldwide

Summary

Percona is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to work on PostgreSQL and related components from home, contributing to the open-source community and Percona's customers. Minimum 4 years of experience in hands-on development, knowledge of PostgreSQL internals, distributed system development, and scripting languages are required.

Requirements

• Minimum 4 years of hands-on development experience and related tools / build processes (e.g. gcc/autoconf/automake)
• Hands-on knowledge of PostgreSQL internals
• Distributed system development and/or database server development
• Fluent in developer tools like git, gcc, gdb
• Scripting languages like Perl and Shell scripting
• Working autonomously in a globally distributed organization
• Collaborating with open source communities and colleagues via mailing lists, IRC, Slack, etc
• Using collaboration/tracking tools like Jira/Notion
• Ability to speak, listen and write effectively in fluent English

Responsibilities

• Design, code, implement and document improvements to PostgreSQL and related components
• Create and submit patches for review, perform periodic source code merges from other open source repositories
• Perform root cause analysis of customer-impacting defects to provide the optimal solution
• Develop test cases for continuous integration deployment
• Participate in code and design reviews
• Diagnose and fix defects in PostgreSQL and related components
• Create documentation about your work that is consumable and can be refined by our documentation team
• Be part of the PostgreSQL developer community, representing Percona as a PostgreSQL contributor
• Share your knowledge by attending and speaking at related conferences and writing blog posts about your work, participating in our public forums

Preferred Qualifications

• Being an active member of the PostgreSQL developer community
• Having a track record of contributing to PostgreSQL or other open source projects
• Proven success working in a distributed environment
• Experienced conference speaker, technical blog writer, activity on public forums or mailing lists

Benefits

• Remote work
• Flexible hours
• The ability to work remotely
• The amazing experience of working with a multinational team of experts
• Funding for training, certifications, conferences and more