Percona is hiring a Director of Platform Engineering. Find out more!
At Percona, we recognize you need much more than just a database server to successfully run a database-powered infrastructure. You also need strong tools that deploy, manage and monitor the software. Percona’s Platform Engineering group is responsible just for that. They build next-generation open source solutions for the deployment, monitoring and management of open source databases.
This team is currently responsible for products such as Percona Toolkit , Percona Monitoring Plugins and Percona Monitoring and Management.
Percona builds products that advance state-of-the-art open source software. Our products help our customers monitor and manage their databases. They help our services team serve customers faster, better and more effectively.
The leader of the Platform Engineering group needs a strong vision, as well as an understanding of market trends, best practices for automation, monitoring and management – in the cloud and on premises. This person must have some past technical operations background and experience building and leading engineering teams that have efficiently delivered high-quality software. The ideal candidate will also understand the nature of open source software development and experience working with distributed teams.
This position is for “player coach” – you will get your hands dirty writing code, performing quality assurance, making great documentation and assisting customers with troubleshooting.
We not looking for extensive experience with a particular programming language, but qualified candidates should be adept at learning new programming languages. Currently, our teams use a combination of Perl, Python, Go and Javascript.
The Director of Platform Engineering reports to Vadim Tkachenko, CTO and VP of Engineering. They will also work closely with myself, other senior managers and experts at Percona.
Interested? Please apply here on Percona’s website.