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Database Engineer (MySQL)

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Mid level
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35 Locations
Mid level
Engage in advanced database support, troubleshoot complex issues, and collaborate with a remote team of database experts, focusing on MySQL, performance tuning, and client relations.
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Percona is an industry leader in providing elite services, training and software for MySQL®, MariaDB®, MongoDB®, PostgreSQL® and other open source databases in on-premises and cloud environments. Our services and software accommodate rapid growth and application development, help companies develop and deploy agile solutions and improve your ability to keep up with customer needs.


What You Will Do
Percona Support is a global, elite team of engineers who love getting to the bottom of weird and interesting database behavior. We understand our customers’ business needs and the nuances of their technical environments. This allows us to help our customers see the big picture and identify opportunities to improve their overall database infrastructures.


This is not a boring, entry-level role where you’ll just be triaging the boring and monotonous. We are not a call-center operation, we are a team of senior IT folks with a collective knowledge that solves problems for Inc 50. companies and works with some of the largest MySQL deployments in the world.


You’ll be teaming with some of the most well known database ninjas in the industry who are even better teammates, friends and mentors. This is a mid-level position, where senior personnel will be assisting you to improve and develop your own skills and become more proficient with databases than you can possibly imagine.


This is a 100% remote role, so you can be located anywhere in the world. All you need is a decent, stable internet connection.


What You Have Done

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

  • Be a 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 of 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.

  • Be 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.

What Will Make you Stand Out

  • Experience working in SLA-bound operations.

  • Open Source Community contributions (could be a blog).

  • Good practice with working over screen-sharing/phone.

  • Knowledge of any of the following technologies:

    • 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

    • Percona Toolkit suite

    • MySQL DBA, Professional Certifications

    • MongoDB

    • PostgreSQL

    • MyRocks

    • Kubernetes / OpenShift / Docker

    • Advanced Linux troubleshooting tools (gdb, perf, strace, bpftrace, tcpdump, etc)


Location: Remote, work from home position anywhere. 5 day work week including weekend. Participation with the on-call team schedule. You will need to be able to travel to company events, conferences, etc.


Your legal agreement will be with Percona Staffing LLC, a USA corporation and a subsidiary of Percona LLC.


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Why Percona?

At Percona, we believe an open world is a better world. Our mission is to enable everyone to innovate freely, by providing the best open source database software, support, and services. We make databases and applications run better through a unique combination of expertise and open source software built with the community for you. Our technical teams are experts in MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and MariaDB.

Percona is proud to be a remote-only and globally dispersed workforce – we have colleagues in more than 50 countries! We offer a collaborative, highly-engaged culture where your ideas are welcome and your voice is heard.

Our staff receives generous benefits including 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, and the opportunity to participate in our equity incentive plan. We also have benefits that support a healthy work/life balance such as The Percona Adventure Team, Work-from-Anywhere, FlowDays, FryDays, and overall flexibility. We also support being socially responsible through our PAVE volunteering program and Women Transforming Technology.

If you love the idea of working with a high-growth tech company that is one of the best in the business and known globally as a leader in the open-source database space, let’s talk!

Connect with us and stay up to date on our latest news and developments by following us on LinkedIn and Twitter. We look forward to connecting with you!

Top Skills

Ansible
AWS
Azure
Chef
Docker
Galera
GCP
Innodb
Kubernetes
MongoDB
Mydumper
Myrocks
MySQL
Openshift
Orchestrator
Percona Monitoring & Management
Percona Toolkit
Postgres
Proxysql
Puppet
Rds
Xtrabackup
Xtradb Cluster

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