Job Description:
• Percona Support is a global team of engineers.
• You’ll be teaming with some of the most well-known database experts in the industry.
• Opportunity to develop your own skills.
• Not a boring, entry-level role.
• Main responsibility will be helping customers’ DBA teams.
• Gather relevant data and investigating issues.
• Provide a detailed analysis of findings.
• Authoring new blog posts on interesting topics for the open-source community.
• Answering questions on the forum.
• Creating new articles in the customer-facing knowledge base.
• Hosting webinars amongst other things.
• This is a remote role with a stable internet connection required.
Requirements:
• 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
• Self-taught and enthused to grow your skill set with new technologies as the industry continues to evolve
• Availability to travel for occasional team meeting, conference or customer visit
• Experience working with customers in English
• Very desirable to have related Kubernetes knowledge
• 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
Benefits:
• Flexible work hours
• Various paid time off programs
• All your equipment for your remote office
• Funds for career development (external training, certifications, conferences)
• Ongoing connectivity allowances
• Opportunity to participate in equity incentive plan
• Support for a healthy work/life balance
• PAVE volunteering program
• Women Transforming Technology.
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