Go Senior Software Engineer (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.

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!

Ihre Aufgaben

Ideally, we would love to find a Software Engineer who has in-depth knowledge of distributed databases or Kubernetes.

Time zone: this is a remote work-from-home position. However, the team median is UTC +2, so we will favor +/-3 hours from there.

What You Will Do

• Collaborate with a geographically distributed team to design and implement new features for Kubernetes DBs operators.

• Participate in code reviews to ensure high-quality software.

• Work closely with a product manager, QA team, and community contributors to shape Operator's roadmap and prioritize features that bring the most outstanding value.

• Build robust and resilient database solutions focusing on ensuring data integrity, fault tolerance, and high availability across distributed systems.

• Contribute to upstream projects we leverage to bring our solutions to the community.

• Serve as a mentor to junior developers, guiding best practices in software design, coding, testing, and debugging, particularly in large-scale distributed database systems.

• Blog, present, and evangelize our software to help increase adoption and keep our thriving community growing

• Engage with other departments in Percona to ensure we're delivering value-driven solutions.

Ihr Profil

We are seeking a talented and dynamic full-time remote Golang Software Engineer to help us build an Open Source K8s Database Operator. The work is challenging, but that's why it's also fun and rewarding! You and your work will significantly impact the Kubernetes ecosystem. This is a unique opportunity to work from home in a great team, on a 100% open source project!,

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience

• Minimum 3 years of experience in Go development and object-oriented design with a strong understanding of SOLID, KISS, and DRY principles

• DBs (preferable) or K8s strong experience

• Experience with k8s operators (nice to have)

• Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery tools such as Jenkins, CircleCI, and Travis

• Experience with high concurrency threading models, atomics, and locking primitives

• Knowledge of various programming and scripting languages such as BASH, Perl, and Python

  What Will Make You Stand Out

• Development experience in DBaaS solutions

• Development expertise in k8s operators

• If you have deep knowledge of any of these DB: MySQL, MongoDB or PostgreSQL

• Experience in Linux systems administration, including suitable expertise with file systems, hardware, and networking