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Percona is looking for a remote, full-time Senior Backend Software Engineer to join the PMM team and help build the next generation of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM). PMM is a free and open-source observability and database management platform for monitoring, troubleshooting, and managing MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and the infrastructure they run on. You will work primarily on the backend of PMM, building services, APIs, database integrations, and distributed components in Go. You will work with modern observability technologies including OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, ClickHouse, metrics, logs, and traces, while helping us evolve PMM toward an increasingly automated and agentic observability platform. We are also actively exploring how AI coding tools, AI agents, automation, MCP, and LLM-based workflows can improve both the PMM product and the way we develop software. What You Will Do • Design and develop reliable, scalable, and performant backend services and APIs in Go. • Build features for monitoring, observability, troubleshooting, and management of database environments. • Work with OpenTelemetry and observability signals including metrics, logs, and traces. • Develop integrations with MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and other database technologies. • Work with distributed systems, containers, Kubernetes, and cloud-native infrastructure. • Design and evolve APIs and internal service architecture. • Take ownership of complex features from technical design through implementation, testing, and delivery. • Participate in code and architecture reviews and help establish engineering best practices. • Improve automated testing, CI/CD, developer tooling, and engineering productivity. • Explore and adopt AI-assisted development, coding agents, and automation where they improve engineering effectiveness. • Contribute to PMM as an open-source project and collaborate with the wider community. What You Have Done • Strong backend engineering experience with significant production experience in Go. • Strong understanding of software architecture, APIs, concurrency, and distributed systems. • Experience designing, building, and documenting APIs. • Experience with at least one of MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis/Valkey, or similar database technologies. • Experience with observability, monitoring, metrics, logging, or tracing systems. • Familiarity with OpenTelemetry concepts and architecture. • Experience with automated testing and a strong focus on software quality. • Comfortable working with Linux. • Experience with Git and modern software development workflows. • Experience with containers and cloud-native environments. • Fluent written and spoken English. • Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fully remote team. What Will Make You Stand Out • Strong practical experience with OpenTelemetry, including OTLP, collectors, metrics, logs, or traces. • Experience with Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, ClickHouse, Grafana, or similar observability technologies. • Experience building or operating distributed observability platforms. • Deep knowledge of database internals or database performance monitoring. • Experience with Docker and Kubernetes. • Experience building secure distributed systems and working with encryption, authentication, and authorization. • Experience contributing to or maintaining open-source projects. • Experience using AI coding tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, or similar tools as part of your engineering workflow. • Experience building AI-powered developer workflows, agents, or engineering automation. • Experience with MCP (Model Context Protocol), agent tool integration, or similar agent interoperability frameworks. • Experience working with LLM APIs, agent frameworks, or AI-assisted troubleshooting / observability systems. • Experience improving engineering productivity through automation and developer tooling. 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 …

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop reliable, scalable, and performant backend services and APIs in Go. • Build features for monitoring, observability, troubleshooting, and management of database environments.

Oct 5

Technical Writer - PostgreSQL (Remote)

We are looking for a talented and flexible Technical Writer to join one of our distributed open-source software development teams. You will work on the PostgreSQL database and related components, in close collaboration with our dedicated PostgreSQL team. Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL https://www.percona.com/postgresql/brings together essential enterprise components from the broader PostgreSQL open-source community into a single, integrated distribution designed and tested to ensure compatibility. You will represent our voice to our technical customers and provide complete, clear documentation for our PostgresSQL products https://docs.percona.com/percona-for-postgresql/. We seek someone committed to delivering consistent, high-quality, and on-time documentation, whether in the form of guides, user manuals, help files, or man pages. You should be comfortable working in version-controlled environments, as we adopt a docs-as-code methodology. You will be embedded in the PostgreSQL team, but also working alongside the Product Documentation team, which comprises several technical writers dedicated to developing a scalable documentation strategy that drives user adoption and effective use of our products. You are expected to collaborate with the other writers as we aim to continuously improve our practices. Location/time zone Remote work from home. Open to worldwide candidates, but the team median is UTC-2, so we recommend candidates operate within +/- 4 hours of this baseline. What you will do • Create all technical documentation from install/configuration/troubleshooting guides, how-tos, user manuals, man pages, to --help prompts • Participate in team ceremonies. Collaborate with the Engineering Manager, Product Manager, Devs, and QA to output high-quality documentation • Use text, markdown, images, and diagrams to ensure that audiences of all experience levels can extract value from our documentation • Leverage AI tooling to quickly draft, polish, format, and refine content • Maintain documentation versioning and be a contributor to our overall documentation strategy Your experience • Graduate-level written English and excellent verbal communication skills • Experience with documenting complex systems and writing user-oriented documentation • 3+ years of experience as a technical writer and ability to write high-quality and precise documentation • Experience with markup languages (Markdown preferred) • Experience with the installation and configuration of database server software on Linux • Docs-as-code experience. Knowledge of Jenkins, git, Markdown, HTML, and/or JavaScript (strongly recommended) • Experience in leveraging AI tooling for documentation purposes • Comfortable with Linux command line • Distributed system development and/or database server development • Fluent in developer tools like git, gcc, gdb • Working autonomously in a globally distributed organization • Collaborating with open source communities and colleagues via mailing lists, Slack, etc. • Using collaboration/tracking tools like Jira/Notion • Proven success working in a distributed environment • Quick learner and great team player What will (really) make you stand out • A developer or DevOps background • Having a track record of contributing to PostgreSQL or other open source projects. Being an active member of the PostgreSQL community • A solid understanding of PostgreSQL internals to write accurate content to potentially contribute upstream • A solid working knowledge of advanced concepts such as database storage engines, at-rest encryption, and cloud orchestration • Ability to build and maintain automated documentation testing, CI/CD pipelines for documentation process, and validation tools • Experienced conference speaker, technical blog writer, active on public forums or mailing lists Communication, travel, and remote collaboration Percona is a globally distributed, remote-first organization that values active communication and collaboration. While working from your home office, it's important to engage openly and proactively with your team. We promote lively discussions, idea sharing, and transparent work updates. To foster a strong team environment, we depend on consistent communication via tools like Slack, Zoom, and Jira, which keep us connected, aligned, and supportive across different time zones. Although travel isn't always necessary, there may occasionally be opportunities for conferences or in-person meetups to strengthen relationships and ensure strategic alignment. Working environment, planning, and growth At Percona, we prioritize a structured work environment to support your focus and flow. We organize our tasks within specific timeframes and scopes, minimizing shifting priorities to allow you to concentrate on assigned tasks. This planning process is collaborative, involving the entire team, Product, and customer …

Responsibilities:

• Create all technical documentation from install/configuration/troubleshooting guides, how-tos, user manuals, man pages, to --help prompts • Participate in team ceremonies.

Aug 27

Product Marketing Manager

PRODUCT MARKETING MANAGER/GTM OWNER (CLOUD NATIVE) Talent Pooling Opportunity We are currently building a talent pool for this role and welcoming applications from candidates who may be interested in joining us in early Q4. Please note that this is a forward-planning recruitment process, so there may be a delay in responding to applications. We appreciate your patience and will be in touch with suitable candidates as the process progresses. ABOUT THE ROLE Percona is hiring a Product Marketing Manager/ Go-To-Market (GTM) Owner to lead and execute go-to-market strategies for our Cloud Native product line: PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB Kubernetes Operators. You will own positioning, messaging, launches, sales enablement, and community/event strategy for this product line, working closely with engineering, sales, partnerships, and revenue operations. This is an individual contributor role with a high degree of ownership. You will be the dedicated marketing lead for Cloud Native and the primary point of contact for turning product and partnership work into market-facing content and campaigns. WHAT YOU'LL DO • Develop positioning and messaging that clearly connects Percona's Kubernetes software with its Support and Services offerings, collaborating closely with Product, Sales, and Engineering teams. • Own go-to-market strategy and launch execution for new releases, features, and service offerings across the portfolio. • Create and maintain GTM assets, including web pages, datasheets, case studies, white papers, and sales enablement materials. • Engage with the open-source community, partners, and customers to strengthen Percona's Kubernetes market presence, generate customer insights, and drive service adoption. • Build customer evidence through interviews, Jobs-to-be-Done research, case studies, testimonials, and other proof points. • Influence product strategy and roadmap by bringing together customer feedback, market insights, and competitive analysis. • Optimize marketing effectiveness through audience segmentation, campaign performance analysis, and data-driven recommendations. • Partner with Digital Marketing to maximize the impact of content, SEO, PPC, email, social media, and other demand generation channels. WHAT YOU'LL BRING • Technical background or familiarity with Database management or the Kubernetes software market is a plus. • 2+ years of experience in go-to-market, product marketing, or solution-focused roles. • Product Marketing Alliance or Pragmatic (or any other PMM) certification is a plus • Solid understanding of customer buying journeys and decision-making processes. • Strong data analysis skills to drive segmentation and performance tracking for demand generation. • Exceptional writing, communication, and presentation abilities. • Proven experience aligning messaging and value propositions with customer and sales needs, including communication with prospects, partners, and industry analysts. • Fluency in English (written and spoken). • A data-driven mindset. You form a view, test it, and adjust based on what you learn 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 https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?fetchDeterministicClustersOnly=true&heroEntityKey=urn:li:organization:421929&keywords=percona&origin=RICH_QUERY_TYPEAHEAD_HISTORY&position=0&searchId=29912b91-aeb0-4aa6-b3ab-fc70c59fa57f&sid=u0N and Twitter …

Responsibilities:

• Develop positioning and messaging that clearly connects Percona's Kubernetes software with its Support and Services offerings, collaborating closely with Product, Sales, and Engineering teams. • Own go-to-market str…

Aug 24

Executive Assistant to the CEO (Remote)

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. You can find more information about working at Percona here https://www.percona.com/careers/. Job Summary: The Executive Assistant is responsible for maintaining the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) 's schedule and providing backup administrative support to the Executive Leadership Team (ELT). This role has many responsibilities and is key to ensuring the CEO has strong administrative support to sustain Percona's success. What You Will Do: • Manage and maintain the calendar of Percona’s CEO • Assist the CEO in producing documents, project plans, and presentations as required • Assist the CEO in preparing for board meetings, including the preparation of board presentations and other associated material • Collaborate with the CEO and Percona board to coordinate meetings as required • Manage and maintain annual, quarterly, monthly, and weekly regular meetings as required (for example, departmental/meetings and monthly all company calls) • Support the CEO’s conference talk submissions and preparation • Assist with travel arrangements for CEO as required • Includes booking reservations with airlines and accommodations • Provide Zoom links, attend meetings, take minutes, and publish decisions and actions • As needed, assist with email backlog to ensure timely triaging and response to priority communications • Manage and submit expense reports as requested • Facilitate follow-through on meeting decisions and action items • Other duties as assigned. Minimum requirements • Minimum of 3 Years of experience in an EA or administrative support role) • Speak/write fluent English • Ability to work remotely with alignment to the Central European Timezone • Strong organizational skills • Prior experience supporting executive leadership in a technology or software company preferred Other requirements • Demonstrated discretion and confidentiality in handling sensitive information • Strong written communication skills • Demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal direction • Demonstrated ability to accept feedback from others • Communicates clearly and professionally to convey confidence even when under pressure • Outgoing and friendly personality, as you will be representing Percona and our CEO in this role • Ability to be flexible when the situation requires you to • Ability to navigate ambiguity and work collaboratively with others to identify solutions What Will Make You Stand Out: You know how to take initiative and get things done. You demonstrate humility along with a hunger for continuous improvement. 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 …

Responsibilities:

• Manage and maintain the calendar of Percona’s CEO • Assist the CEO in producing documents, project plans, and presentations as required

Aug 17

Sr. Software Engineer - Go/MongoDB (Remote)

MongoDB Tools Team Team: MongoDB Tools (Product and Engineering) Location: Remote Projects: percona/percona-clustersync-mongodb https://github.com/percona/percona-clustersync-mongodb and percona/percona-backup-mongodb https://github.com/percona/percona-backup-mongodb ABOUT THE TEAM The MongoDB Tools Team builds Percona's open source operational tooling for MongoDB. Two projects sit at the center of what we do. Percona ClusterSync for MongoDB (PCSM) clones and continuously replicates data between clusters. Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) is a distributed, low-impact backup and restore solution for replica sets and sharded clusters. Both are written in Go, both are Apache 2.0 licensed, and both are built fully in the open. This role sits primarily on PCSM, which is younger and moving fast, so you will have real influence over how it takes shape. You will also work across into PBM. The two tools share many hard problems: cluster topology, the oplog and change streams, consistency across shards, and performance in very large production clusters. Backup and restore experience is a real advantage here, not just a box to tick. THE PROJECTS • PCSM (primary focus): initial data cloning followed by continuous change replication over MongoDB Change Streams, for both replica sets and sharded clusters. Still pre-1.0 and evolving quickly. • PBM (secondary): consistent backup and restore with point-in-time recovery, using oplog capture to stay consistent across replica sets and sharded clusters, with S3-compatible and filesystem storage. Driven by pbm-agent processes on each node and a pbm CLI. Mature and widely deployed in production. WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON PRIMARY, ON PCSM • The core replication engine: initial collection cloning followed by continuous change capture over MongoDB Change Streams, with correct handling of resume tokens, ordering, and resumability after failures. • Correctness and fault tolerance at scale: recovering cleanly from network drops, primary elections, and restarts without losing or duplicating changes, and reasoning carefully about the delivery guarantees we can honestly promise. • Sharded cluster support: replicating across shards, dealing with the realities of chunk migrations and balancer activity, and keeping the target consistent. • Namespace filtering and automatic index management, plus the edge cases that show up with DDL, TTL, and index differences between source and target. • Performance and throughput: parallelizing the clone, applying backpressure, and keeping memory and connection use sane against large clusters with great change volume. • The CLI and HTTP API that drive and observe a sync, and the metrics and logging that let an operator trust what is happening. ALSO ACROSS PBM • Consistent backup, restore, and point-in-time recovery across replica sets and sharded clusters, using physical or logical type of the backup. • Backup storage: integrating reliably with main cloud object storage (S3, GCS, Azure Blob Storage...) and remote filesystems, and handling the throughput and failure modes that show up at scale. • The pbm-agent and pbm CLI, and the control-collection state in MongoDB that coordinates them across the cluster. SHARED ACROSS BOTH • Working in the open: pull requests, code review, JIRA, and the community forum. • Release quality: tests, packaging, and the CI and security scanning that gate every change. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE: • Strong Go experience in production, with real fluency in concurrency: goroutines, channels, context cancellation, worker pools, and backpressure. You have debugged a race condition that only showed up under load, and you know how you found it. • Solid grounding in distributed systems and data consistency. You can talk clearly about at-least-once versus exactly-once, idempotency, ordering, and what it takes to make a stateful process resumable. • Hands-on MongoDB knowledge: change streams, the oplog, resume tokens, replica sets, and sharding. You do not need to have built replication before, but you should understand why it is hard. • Comfort building and operating command-line tools and HTTP APIs, and instrumenting them with metrics and structured logs. • A habit of writing tests that catch real problems, and comfort working across a mixed toolchain. • Experience working in the open: Git and pull request workflows, giving and taking code review well, and communicating clearly in writing with contributors you have never met in person. NICE TO HAVE • Prior work on database internals, CDC pipelines, ETL, or data migration tooling. • Familiarity with the Prometheus style of metrics and observability. • Experience with golangci-lint, vulnerability scanning (for example Trivy), and deb and rpm packaging. • Background maintaining or contributing to an open source project with an external community. • Exposure to MongoDB sharded clusters at large scale, where …

Jul 28

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PostgreSQL Database Support Engineer - EMEA (Remote)

Percona Support is a global, elite team of engineers who love getting to the bottom of weird and interesting database behaviour. 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. What you’ll be doing… You’ll be teaming with some of the most well-known database experts in the industry who are even better teammates, friends and mentors. You’ll have the opportunity to develop your own skills and become more powerful than you can possibly imagine…. with databases. This is not a boring, entry-level role where you’ll just be triaging the boring and monotonous. Your main responsibility will be helping our customers’ DBA teams when they need expert assistance. You’ll do that by gathering relevant data and investigating issues to provide a detailed analysis of your findings in a digestible format by email, instant message or voice. For more serious and production-impacting issues, you’ll perform screen-sharing sessions to help them quickly navigate and resolve issues. When you’re not fixing things, you’ll be authoring new blog posts on interesting topics for our open-source community to digest, answering questions on our forum, creating new articles in our customer-facing knowledge base for more frequently seen issues, and hosting webinars amongst other things. This is a remote role, so you can be located anywhere in the world. All you need is a decent, stable internet connection. What Have You Done: • Good hands-on knowledge of PostgreSQL, PostgreSQL Provided tools and Contribution modules • Be a skilled with some of the PostgreSQL ecosystem of tools and technologies • Knowledgeable about performance tuning, query optimization, & index tuning • Know-how of backup solutions such as pg base backup, pgBackRest and WAL-G, etc, and also the 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 • 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 What Would Make You Stand Out: • MySQL knowledge • Experience working in SLA-bound operations • OpenSource Community contributions (could be a blog) • Good practice with working over screen-sharing/phone • Patroni / Repmgr / Stolon • 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 • Good grasp of ANSI SQL 92 to 2016 and ability to write/rewrite SQL statements involving Window functions and recursive CTEs • Indexing methods including Full-Text Indexing • Contrib Modules of PostgreSQL • Most popular extensions - pg_repack, pg_partman, pg_audit etc • Foreign Data Wrappers of PostgreSQL (postgres_fdw, oracle_fdw, tde_fdw, file_fdw etc) • Advanced Linux troubleshooting tools (gdb, perf, strace, bpftrace, tcpdump, etc) • Experience programming in C 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 …

Senior Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) (remote work)