Percona is hiring a
Software Development Engineer in Worldwide

Summary

As an Upstream Contributor at Percona, you will primarily contribute to the Valkey project's codebase, foster a collaborative environment within the core Valkey community, and work closely with various teams to provide insights for product development. Strong background in C or C++ development, understanding of Valkey/Redis, collaboration skills, and communication skills are required.

Requirements

• Strong background in C or C++ development
• Deep understanding of Valkey/Redis or other key: value databases with prior experience contributing to open-source projects
• Excellent collaboration skills, ability to work well in decentralized open-source communities
• Effective communication skills for internal and external collaboration

Responsibilities

• Contribute to Valkey’s codebase helping to deliver against its roadmap
• Participate in community discussions, maintain a visible presence in mailing lists or forums, and contribute to documentation
• Serve as the bridge between the Valkey team and Percona’s engineering, product, and community teams
• Partner with other internal experts to help diagnose and resolve customer issues
• Share deep understanding of Redis and Valkey with teams across Percona
• Represent the project at conferences, webinars, and community events
• Provide feedback to the community and maintainers to guide future development

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on knowledge of Redis or other database internals
• Being an active member of an open source developer community
• Having a track record of contributing to a database project 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

• Flexible work hours and various paid time off programs
• All your equipment for your remote office
• Funds for career development (external training, certifications, conferences)
• Ongoing connectivity allowances
• Opportunity to participate in our equity incentive plan
• Benefits that support a healthy work/life balance such as The Percona Adventure Team, Work-from-Anywhere, FlowDays, FryDays, and overall flexibility
• Support for being socially responsible through our PAVE volunteering program and Women Transforming Technology