Senior Software Engineer/PHP Developer/Full Stack Developer
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Percona seeks a flexible and efficient Senior Software Engineer to join its Open-Source Software Development team. You will work on Percona's open-source tools for MongoDB and related components, developing new products, features, and bug fixes in close collaboration with the Percona Server for MongoDB team.
You will work from your home office, using online tools and resources to contribute to a fast-moving and high-performing development environment for Percona and its customers.
Flexible work hours.
Participate in code reviews to ensure high-quality software. Engage with the broader MongoDB open-source community by submitting and reviewing pull requests (PRs) and addressing issues the community raises.
Work closely with product managers, QA teams, and community contributors to shape Perconas tools 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
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience
Strong knowledge of NoSQL databases and large-scale distributed systems, preferably MongoDB, as well as ACID and replication
Knowledge of various programming and scripting languages such as BASH, Perl, and Python
Proven experience with AI/ML technologies and a strong enthusiasm for building intelligent systems
Development experience with high-performance, scalable backup and restore solutions, distributed environments, optimizing concurrency, data compression, and encryption algorithms to handle multi-terabyte databases with minimal performance degradation across distributed sharded environments
Your active participation in the MongoDB or similar open-source community and proven track record of code contributions will set you apart
Experience in Linux systems administration, including suitable expertise with file systems, hardware, and networking
Communication, Travel, and Remote Collaboration
As a globally distributed, remote-first company, Percona thrives on active communication and collaboration. While you'll be working from your home office, engaging openly and proactively with your team is absolutely crucial. While travel is not a consistent requirement, there may be occasional opportunities for conferences or team meetups, where we come together in person to strengthen our bonds and strategic alignment.
Typical Day as a Senior Software Engineer MongoDB (Go) at Percona:
Working Environment and Planning:
We plan our work within defined timeframes and scopes, minimizing shifting priorities to allow you to concentrate on predefined tasks. Planning is a collaborative effort, involving the team, Product, and customer insights. Morning (flexible, as you own your schedule): Focus on development tasks: coding, testing, and code reviews for MongoDB tools. Mid-Day: Lunch break and casual Slack interactions. Resume development, attend (if scheduled) technical discussions, planning, or join a brief team sync (Zoom). Research and learn new technologies. Plan for the next day and wrap up tasks.
Flexible work hours around potentially prescheduled team syncs or customer meetings. 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! 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, lets talk!
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Job function Engineering and Information Technology
Industries Software Development
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