Sr. MongoDB Specialist

Who is Percona?

Percona is a respected thought leader in the open source community. We provide services and software for MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL and Maria DB to open source users globally.

Percona is remote-first and globally dispersed; we have 250 people in almost 40 countries. We offer a collaborative, highly-engaged culture where your ideas are welcome and your voice is heard. The growth and development of our staff is a top priority; we provide funding for training, certifications, conferences and more.

Discover what it means to work with some of the smartest people in the industry, who also know how to have fun and are always willing to lend a helping hand. We offer flexible hours, the ability to work remotely and the amazing experience of working with a multinational team of experts.

The Percona Support Team…

Percona Support is a global, elite team of engineers who love getting to the bottom of weird and interesting database behaviour. We understand our customers’ business needs and the nuances of their technical environments. This allows us to help our customers see the big picture and identify opportunities to improve their overall database infrastructures.

What you’ll be doing…

You’ll be teaming with some of the most well-known database experts in the industry who are even better teammates, friends and mentors. You’ll have the opportunity to develop your own skills and become more powerful than you can possibly imagine…. with databases.

This is not a boring, entry-level role where you’ll just be triaging the boring and monotonous.

Your main responsibility will be helping our customers’ DBA teams when they need expert assistance. You’ll do that by gathering relevant data and investigating issues to provide a detailed analysis of your findings in a digestible format by email, instant message or voice. For more serious and production-impacting issues, you’ll perform screen-sharing sessions to help them quickly navigate and resolve issues.

When you’re not fixing things, you’ll be authoring new blog posts on interesting topics for our open-source community to digest, answering questions on our forum, creating new articles in our customer-facing knowledge base for more frequently seen issues, and hosting webinars amongst other things.

This is a remote role, so you can be located anywhere in the world. All you need is a decent, stable internet connection.

What You Will Do

• Ownership of technical support tickets related to MongoDB and related technologies
• Serve as a Level 3 escalation point and resource for Support and Global Services regarding MongoDB customer issues
• Ensure that tickets are kept up to date and driven to resolution
• Maintain up to date technical and non-technical documentation related to MongoDB
• Be at the forefront of Percona blogs and look to research and identify gaps in the customer knowledge base, adding technical and thought leadership articles
• Keep current regarding the latest technology trends in the MongoDB community
• Team knowledge transfer regular update and training to the whole of Support
• Webinar recordings
• Spot checks /QA

Your Experience, Skills, Attributes

• Expert-level knowledge of MongoDB
• Excellent Linux skills and familiarity with debugging issues at code level
• Very desirable to have related Kubernetes knowledge
• Prior technical support experience is a must have - including providing services to agreed SLA’s
• Fluent written and spoken English communication skills
• Professional, customer service oriented attitude
• Strong work ethic and entrepreneurial approach
• Ability to communicate clearly and professionally under pressure
• Availability to participate in a 24x7 on call roster for escalation purposes
• Mentoring/coaching skills
• Ability to work independently with minimal direction
• Desire to travel internationally and speak at Percona Live and other conferences

Percona's Lifestyle:

• Enjoy the freedom to work remotely from anywhere in the world!
• With top talent sourced globally, you will enjoy an international and culturally diverse team
• Flexibility in your working hours means you can prioritize your personal life, pursue hobbies, volunteer, and stay active
• Our internal programs include groups like:
• The Percona Adventure Team: This team embarks on unforgettable journeys to breathtaking locations around the world for activities such as mountain climbing, hiking, white water rafting and more.
• Women Transforming Technology is a grassroots program committed to building a supportive community of women in technology. Their goals are to connect, empower and inspire women in all areas and levels of the organization.
• Flow days: Fridays at Percona are for focusing on finding your workflow. Meetings and distractions are limited on Fridays so you can focus on getting things done.
• FryDays: With Percona being so globally dispersed there are not many holidays that overlap for everyone. FryDays are four Fridays each year where everyone at Percona can unplug and enjoy the same 3-day weekend.

Percona is remote-only and globally dispersed – 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 paid time off, all your equipment for your remote office, funds for career development (external training, certifications, conferences) and the opportunity to participate in an equity incentive plan.