Percona is hiring a
Software Development Engineer in South America

Summary

The job is for an Upstream Contributor at Percona focusing on the Valkey project. The role involves improving the Valkey project by actively contributing code, advocating best practices, fostering a collaborative environment within the core Valkey and Redis community, and working closely with Percona’s engineering, product, and community teams to provide insights for development of add-ons, extensions, and integrations.

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 preferred
• Excellent collaboration skills, with the 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
• Actively 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 to ensure compatibility and innovation of our own features and integrations with the upstream project
• Partner with other internal experts to serve as an escalation point in helping diagnose and resolve customer issues
• Share deep understanding of Redis and Valkey with teams across Percona to help them enhance their skills and understanding
• Be a vocal advocate for the Valkey ecosystem, representing the project at conferences, webinars, and community events

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
• Various paid time off programs
• Equipment for remote office
• Funds for career development (external training, certifications, conferences)
• Ongoing connectivity allowances
• Opportunity to participate in equity incentive plan
• Benefits supporting 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