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.

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

What Will You Do:

Collaborate with a geographically distributed team to design and implement new products and tools around MongoDB.
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 Percona’s 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
Engage with other departments in Percona to ensure we’re delivering value-driven solutions.

What Have You Done:

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
Strong knowledge of NoSQL databases and large-scale distributed systems, preferably MongoDB, as well as ACID and replication
Strong understanding of replication and sharding techniques
Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery tools such as GitHub Actions, 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
Working with tools like profiler, gdb, and strace for debugging
Proven experience with AI/ML technologies and a strong enthusiasm for building intelligent systems

What Will Make You Stand Out:

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

Senior Software Engineer (Go/MongoDB)

Anywhere in the world

Remote

Senior

Percona