Senior Software Engineer - PostgreSQL (Remote)

Percona; London; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Senior Software Engineer, where you'll contribute to the PostgreSQL open-source database. This role offers the chance to design and implement improvements, collaborate with the PostgreSQL community, and work flexibly from your home office. As part of a globally dispersed team, you'll enjoy a culture that values your ideas and supports your professional growth. With generous benefits, including flexible hours and career development funds, this position is perfect for those passionate about open-source software and innovation. If you're ready to make an impact in the tech industry, let's connect!

Benefits

Flexible work hours

Paid time off programs

Remote office equipment

Career development funds

Connectivity allowances

Equity incentive plan

Healthy work/life balance

PAVE volunteering program

Women Transforming Technology support

Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years of development experience with PostgreSQL and related tools.
• Hands-on knowledge of distributed systems and database server development.

Responsibilities

• Design, code, and document improvements to PostgreSQL and related components.
• Participate in code reviews and develop test cases for CI deployment.

Skills

PostgreSQL internals

Distributed system development

Database server development

Scripting languages (Perl, Shell)

Collaboration with open source communities

Fluent English communication

Quick learner

Team player

Tools

git

gcc

gdb

Jira

Notion

Job description

Percona is looking for a flexible and efficient Senior Software Engineer to join its Open Source Software Development team. You will work on the PostgreSQL open-source database and related components, doing both new feature development and bug fixing in close collaboration with the upstream PostgreSQL Community.

Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL provides the best and most critical enterprise components from the open-source community, in a single distribution, designed and tested to work together.

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.

Access to a reliable high-speed internet connection is required. Flexible work hours.

What You Will Do:

• Design, code, implement and document improvements to PostgreSQL and related components
• Create and submit patches for review, perform periodic source code merges from other open source repositories
• Perform root cause analysis of customer-impacting defects to provide the optimal solution
• Develop test cases for continuous integration deployment
• Participate in code and design reviews
• Diagnose and fix defects in PostgreSQL and related components
• Create documentation about your work that is consumable and can be refined by our documentation team
• Be part of the PostgreSQL developer community, representing Percona as a PostgreSQL contributor
• Share your knowledge by attending and speaking at related conferences and writing blog posts about your work, participating in our public forums

Your Experience:

• Minimum 4 years of hands-on development experience and related tools / build processes (e.g. gcc/autoconf/automake)
• Hands-on knowledge of PostgreSQL internals
• Distributed system development and/or database server development
• Fluent in developer tools like git, gcc, gdb
• Scripting languages like Perl and Shell scripting
• Working autonomously in a globally distributed organization
• Collaborating with open source communities and colleagues via mailing lists, IRC, Slack, etc.
• Using collaboration/tracking tools like Jira/Notion
• Ability to speak, listen and write effectively in fluent English
• Quick learner & great team player

What Will Make You Stand Out:

• Being an active member of the PostgreSQL developer community
• Having a track record of contributing to PostgreSQL or other open source projects
• Proven success working in a distributed environment
• Experienced conference speaker, technical blog writer, activity on public forums or mailing lists

Why Percona?

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!

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