Database Performance Consultant/Support Engineer – MySQL (Remote)

Who’s Percona?

Percona is a revered thought chief within the open supply group. We offer companies and software program for MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL and Maria DB to open supply customers globally.

Percona is remote-first and globally dispersed; we have now 250 individuals in virtually 40 nations. We provide a collaborative, highly-engaged tradition the place your concepts are welcome and your voice is heard. The expansion and growth of our workers is a high precedence; we offer funding for coaching, certifications, conferences and extra.

Uncover what it means to work with a number of the smartest individuals within the business, who additionally know have enjoyable and are all the time prepared to lend a serving to hand. We provide versatile hours, the power to work remotely and the wonderful expertise of working with a multinational staff of specialists.

The Percona Help Group…

Percona Help is a world, elite staff of engineers who love attending to the underside of bizarre and fascinating database behaviour. We perceive our clients’ enterprise wants and the nuances of their technical environments. This enables us to assist our clients see the large image and establish alternatives to enhance their general database infrastructures.

What you’ll be doing…

You’ll be teaming with a number of the most well-known database specialists within the business who’re even higher teammates, buddies and mentors. You’ll have the chance to develop your personal expertise and grow to be extra highly effective than you possibly can probably think about…. with databases.

This isn’t a boring, entry-level position the place you’ll simply be triaging the boring and monotonous.

Your important duty will probably be serving to our clients’ DBA groups after they want professional help. You’ll try this by gathering related information and investigating points to supply an in depth evaluation of your findings in a digestible format by e mail, immediate message or voice. For extra severe and production-impacting points, you’ll carry out screen-sharing classes to assist them rapidly navigate and resolve points.

While you’re not fixing issues, you’ll be authoring new weblog posts on fascinating matters for our open-source group to digest, answering questions on our discussion board, creating new articles in our customer-facing data base for extra ceaselessly seen points, and internet hosting webinars amongst different issues.

This can be a distant position, so that you might be situated anyplace on the planet. All you want is a good, steady web connection.

You’ll stand out when you have the next:

• Good hands-on data of each MySQL and InnoDB
• Be a talented with a number of the MySQL ecosystem of instruments and applied sciences
• Educated about efficiency tuning, question optimization, & index tuning
• Know-how of backup options reminiscent of Xtrabackup, mydumper, and many others, and likewise of Level-in-Time-Restoration
• Some expertise with excessive availability options (replication, routers, proxies, and many others)
• Publicity and follow with zero-downtime procedures
• Good understanding of monitoring necessities
• Demonstrable expertise of administering Linux based mostly methods
• Capacity to troubleshoot methodically, figuring out and making use of fixes for identified errors, and when mandatory, capability to suppose outdoors of the field to resolve advanced points
• Self-taught and enthused to develop your ability set with new applied sciences because the business continues to evolve
• Availability to journey for the occasional staff assembly, convention or buyer go to
• Expertise working with clients in English
• Very fascinating to have associated Kubernetes data 

It is a bonus when you have expertise with these:

• Expertise working in SLA-bound operations
• OpenSource Group contributions (could possibly be a weblog)
• Good follow with working over screen-sharing/cellphone
• Galera / XtraDB Cluster / ProxySQL / Orchestrator
• Cloud Providers reminiscent of AWS and RDS, Azure, GCP
• Percona Monitoring & Administration (PMM) and different monitoring instruments
• Configuration administration options reminiscent of Ansible, Puppet or Chef
• Percona Toolkit suite
• MySQL DBA skilled certifications
• MongoDB
• PostgreSQL 
• MyRocks 
• Kubernetes / OpenShift / Docker
• Superior Linux troubleshooting instruments (gdb, perf, strace, bpftrace, tcpdump, and many others)

Percona is a revered thought chief within the open-source group. We offer companies and software program for MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL and MariaDB to open-source customers globally.

Percona is remote-first and globally dispersed; we have now colleagues in additional than 40 nations. We provide a collaborative, highly-engaged tradition the place your concepts are welcome and your voice is heard. The expansion and growth of our workers is a high precedence; we offer funding for coaching, certifications, conferences and extra.

Uncover what it means to work with a number of the smartest individuals within the business, who additionally know have enjoyable and are all the time prepared to lend a serving to hand. We provide versatile hours, the power to work remotely and the wonderful expertise of working with a multinational staff of specialists.

Percona’s Life-style:

• Benefit from the freedom to work remotely from anyplace on the planet!
• With high expertise sourced globally, you’ll get pleasure from a global and culturally various staff
• Flexibility in your working hours means you possibly can prioritize your private life, pursue hobbies, volunteer, and keep energetic
• Our inside packages embrace teams like:
• The Percona Journey Group: This staff embarks on unforgettable journeys to breathtaking places around the globe for actions reminiscent of mountaineering, mountain climbing, white water rafting and extra.
• Ladies Remodeling Know-how is a grassroots program dedicated to constructing a supportive group of ladies in expertise. Their objectives are to attach, empower and encourage ladies in all areas and ranges of the group.
• Movement days: Fridays at Percona are for specializing in discovering your workflow. Conferences and distractions are restricted on Fridays so you possibly can concentrate on getting issues finished.
• FryDays: With Percona being so globally dispersed there usually are not many holidays that overlap for everybody. FryDays are 4 Fridays annually the place everybody at Percona can unplug and revel in the identical 3-day weekend.

Percona is remote-only and globally dispersed – we have now colleagues in additional than 50 nations! We provide a collaborative, highly-engaged tradition the place your concepts are welcome and your voice is heard.

Our workers receives beneficiant advantages together with versatile work hours and paid break day, all of your tools on your distant workplace, funds for profession growth (exterior coaching, certifications, conferences) and the chance to take part in an fairness incentive plan.

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Location: Distant, make money working from home place anyplace. 5 day work week together with weekend

Participation with the on-call staff schedule. You will have to have the ability to journey to firm occasions, conferences, and many others. as security permits.

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