Database Engineer (MySQL)

Do you have experience in PostgreSQL?, * 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.

Percona is widely recognized as a world-class open source database software, support, and services company for MySQL®, MongoDB®, and PostgreSQL® databases in on-premises and cloud environments. We are dedicated to helping make your databases and applications run better through a unique combination of expertise and open source software.