Senior Database Administrator
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- Full Time
- Senior (5 to 8 years)
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Senior (5 to 8 years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
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Data & Analytics, Enterprise SoftwareIndustries
Position Overview
- Location Type: Remote
- Employment Type: Full-Time
- Salary: (Salary not provided in the text)
Percona Support is a global team of elite database engineers focused on helping customers optimize their database infrastructures. This role is a senior position requiring deep expertise and skill across complex technical areas. You will work with experienced database experts, tackling challenging problems for Fortune 50 companies. The role involves assisting customer DBA teams with high-complexity issues, providing detailed analyses, and contributing to the open-source community through blog posts, forum answers, and knowledge base articles.
Requirements
- Deep, hands-on, expert knowledge of PostgreSQL: Including PostgreSQL provided tools and contributor modules.
- Proficiency with the PostgreSQL ecosystem: Such as pgvector, repmgr, barman, pglogical, Patroni, pgBouncer, and similar/related tools.
- Experience with performance tuning: Including server configuration, query optimization, and table/index tuning.
- Familiarity with backup solutions: Including pg base backup, pgBackRest and WAL-G, Point-in-Time-Recovery, etc.
- Experience with high availability solutions: Including replication, routers, proxies, etc.
- Experience administering Linux systems.
- Experience with containerization and Kubernetes: Including deployment, administration, and troubleshooting.
- Methodical troubleshooting skills: Identifying and applying fixes for known errors and demonstrating critical thinking.
Responsibilities
- Assist customer DBA teams with high-complexity database problems.
- Gather relevant data and investigate issues to provide detailed analyses in email, instant message, or voice.
- Perform screen-sharing sessions to help customers quickly resolve issues.
- Author blog posts on interesting database topics for the open-source community.
- Answer questions on the Percona forum.
- Create new articles for the customer-facing knowledge base.
Application Instructions
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Company Information
- Company: Percona
- Description: Percona Support is a global team of elite database engineers. They help customers optimize their database infrastructures by providing expert assistance and contributing to the open-source community.
Skills
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL provided tools
PostgreSQL contributor modules
pgvector
repmgr
barman
pglogical
Patroni
pgBouncer
Performance Tuning
Server configuration
Query optimization
Table/index tuning
Backup solutions
pg base backup
pgBackRest
WAL-G
Point-in-Time-Recovery
High Availability
Replication
Routers
Proxies
Linux administration
Containerization
Kubernetes
Troubleshooting
Percona
Open-source database software and services
About Percona
Percona specializes in open-source database software and services, focusing on systems like MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB. The company enhances these databases to improve their speed and reliability, catering to over 3,000 clients globally, from small startups to large enterprises in various sectors such as technology, finance, and e-commerce. Percona's business model combines free open-source software with paid services, including consulting to optimize database performance and managed services for complete database management. They also offer Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM), a free tool for monitoring database performance. Percona stands out in the database management market due to its dual offering of free and paid solutions, making it a valuable partner for organizations that depend on effective data management.
Pleasanton, CaliforniaHeadquarters
2006Year Founded
$972.7KTotal Funding
GRANTCompany Stage
Data & Analytics, Consulting, Enterprise SoftwareIndustries
201-500Employees