Senior PostgreSQL Database Engineer (Remote)
PerconaWarsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland • Lisbon, Portugal • Berlin, Germany • Dublin, Ireland • Bucharest, Romania • London, England, United Kingdom
Posted November 12, 2025
Full Time
About the Company
Percona is 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.
Job Description
Percona Support is a global team of elite engineers who love getting to the bottom of weird and interesting database behavior. This is a senior role, requiring deep expertise and skill across several complex and challenging technical areas. You will team with some of the most well-known database experts in the industry who are even better teammates, friends, and mentors.
Requirements
- Deep, hands-on, expert knowledge of PostgreSQL
- Proficiency with the wider PostgreSQL ecosystem of tools and technologies
- Experience with performance tuning, including server configuration, query optimization, and table and index tuning
- Familiarity with backup solutions and best practices
- Experience with high availability solutions, including replication, routers, proxies, etc.
- Administering Linux systems
- Containerization and Kubernetes, including deployment, administration, and troubleshooting problems encountered when using PostgreSQL under that environment
- Troubleshooting methodically, identifying and applying fixes for known errors
- Fluency in communicating with customers in English, both in verbally and in writing
Benefits
- Flexible work hours
- Various paid time off programs
- All equipment for your remote office
- Funds for career development
- Ongoing connectivity allowances
- Opportunity to participate in equity incentive plan
- Benefits that support a healthy work/life balance
- Support for being socially responsible through PAVE volunteering program and Women Transforming Technology