VP of Engineering (Remote)

Percona LLC; London; Remote; GBP 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading open-source database company is seeking a VP of Engineering to drive technical excellence across multiple teams. The role requires extensive experience in engineering leadership, technical acumen, and exceptional communication skills. You will mentor engineering leaders, define best practices, and align technical strategy with business goals. This fully remote position offers generous benefits and a collaborative culture.

Benefits

Flexible work hours

Career development funds

Work-from-Anywhere flexibility

Socially responsible programs

Qualifications

• At least five years of experience in engineering leadership.
• Hands-on technical knowledge of software development.
• Proven track record of driving technical improvements.

Responsibilities

• Identify and drive technical initiatives to improve quality and efficiency.
• Act as a mentor and coach for engineering leaders.
• Establish and promote engineering best practices.
• Collaborate with executive leadership on technical strategy.

Skills

Technical leadership

Software development

Open-source technologies

Collaborative skills

Communication skills

Job description

Overview

Are you an experienced VP of Engineering who excels at driving transformative change? Percona, a leading provider of open-source database software and services, is seeking a technical VP of Engineering to join our team. This isn't a VP of Engineering role focused on managing a single product or team; rather, you'll be a key leader in orchestrating technical excellence across multiple engineering groups.

This is a fully remote position, and you'll have the opportunity to work alongside a diverse, global team of passionate open-source enthusiasts. You're a high-level strategic thinker with a keen eye for technical detail, and you're not afraid to roll up your sleeves to identify and solve complex problems.

What You Will Do

• Lead Technical Transformation: Identify and drive technical initiatives to improve quality, efficiency, and reliability across our engineering organization. This includes everything from optimizing our software development lifecycle (SDLC) to helping teams use AI to become more efficient and free up time for product innovation.
• Mentor and Coach: Act as a technical mentor and coach for engineering leaders and senior individual contributors, helping them grow and excel in their roles.
• Define and Evangelize Best Practices: Establish and promote engineering best practices, standards, and processes to ensure consistency and excellence across the organization.
• Strategic Planning: Collaborate with executive leadership and product management to align technical strategy with business goals.

What We Are Looking For

• Extensive Experience: You have at least five years of experience in engineering leadership, with a strong background in architecture and technical strategy. Knowledge of database internals is useful but not required.
• Technical Acumen: You possess deep, hands-on technical knowledge of software development, with a strong understanding of open-source technologies, databases, and cloud-native architectures.
• Transformational Leadership: You have a proven track record of driving significant technical and process improvements across multiple teams or business units - covering testing, building, and shipping enterprise-grade software.
• Exceptional Communicator: You can articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Collaborative Spirit: You thrive in a collaborative, remote-first environment and can build strong relationships with stakeholders at all levels.

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.

Benefits

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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