We're looking for a full-time Performance Engineer with extensive performance research experience to join our CTO Lab team and help continue improving Percona Software. The work is challenging, but that's why it's also fun and rewarding! Plus, you and your work will have a large impact. This is a rare opportunity to start with a great team, on a great project, at a great company with lots of benefits.

What You Will Do

Performance Research, find bottlenecks and areas for improvements in complex network and cluster environments like multi-cloud and kubernetes
Performing Benchmark
Preparing deep reports and documentation of the performed research. Prepare recommendations how to diagnose and fix found problems
Work with the Percona Engineering for technical prototyping of proposed solutions
Escalation point for Services - help with the complex issues

Your Experience

Scripting skills (Bash, Lua, Python)
Experience with databases, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
Experience with Performance profiling - ebpf, lttng, perf.
Writing and presentation skills, examples of written reports
Understanding of statistics. Distributions, standard deviations, median, average
Experience with performance valuation and performance characterisation of different software
Experience with Performance tuning. What is Linux , database settings to improve performance
Presenting data. Charting software, R+ggplot2, Python + Panda, Gnuplot.
Writing supporting articles.
Experience with Docker, Kubernetes
Network clustering skills

What Will Make You Stand Out

Published research work on diagnostic database, OS or network performance issues
Source code repository that shows your skills at massive automation environments

Summary
Percona Staffing LLC
Performance Engineer (Open Source Databases) at Percona Staffing LLC (allows remote)

Tags: databases, performance, kubernetes, linux