This position will support Asia-Pacific hours.

Who is Percona?

Percona is an industry leader in providing elite services, training and software for MySQL®, MariaDB®, MongoDB®, PostgreSQL® and other open source databases in on-premises and cloud environments. Our services and software accommodate rapid growth and application development, help companies develop and deploy agile solutions and improve your ability to keep up with customer needs.

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 does it take to be a Percona superhero?

• Excellent knowledge of both RDBMSs and MongoDB, including:

• All aspects of configuration and best practices

• Schema design, performance tuning, query optimization, & index tuning

• Backup solutions

• Replica set and sharding topologies

• Engine selection and usage

• Detailed understanding of monitoring requirements

• Demonstrable experience of administering Linux based systems

• Hands on experience of MySQL (Minimum 2+ years)

• Knowledge about virtualized environments such as VMWare, Docker and/or Kubernetes

• Knowledge about cloud providers (AWS, Google Cloud, Digital Ocean and/or Azure)

• Ability to troubleshoot methodically, identifying and applying fixes for known errors, and when necessary, capacity to think outside of the box to resolve complex issues

• Enthused to expand your skill set with new technologies as the industry continues to evolve

• Availability to travel for the occasional team meeting, conference and customer visits       

• Experience working with customers in English     

• Completed MongoDB University courses

It's cool if you also have experience with:

• Percona Backup for MongoDB

• Experience with MongoDB Atlas

• MySQL/Postgres DBA troubleshooting (basic level or higher)

• Nagios, Percona Monitoring Plugins and other monitoring tools

• Configuration management solutions such as Ansible, Puppet or Chef     

• Percona Toolkit suite

• Writing Python and Go

• MySQL and/or MongoDB certificates

Remote work from home openings require consistent and strong internet access.

HQ is in Durham, NC USA.  Staff members should be available if there is a need for any onsite trainings and/or events at any time.    

Note that your legal agreement will be with Percona Staffing LLC, a USA corporation and a subsidiary of Percona LLC.

Please review our Percona GDPR Privacy Policy.

Join our team_

Cmd brings together talented problem solvers, thinkers, and tinkerers to achieve our mission to change the current landscape of cybersecurity. We’re looking for people who are as excited as we are to give companies a new way to secure their data.

Make your mark_

Linux + security; we love ‘em. But don’t worry, we don’t need you to be an all-in, security-guru like you might think. We hire subject matter experts to bring their functional skills and unique point of view to the team. That’s what keeps us innovative, adaptable, and stronger.

Achieve more_

We’re just getting started on our journey. You’ll be joining us at a time where you can take full advantage of the opportunities of high-growth. You’ll expand on your current skills, fast-track your development, and see your impact in building a company that will change the face of an industry.

About the role_

You’ll work closely with our team of platform engineers to improve and expand the server-side software that manages and deploys Cmd’s agent into customers’ Linux environments. Our ideal candidate has a passion for technology, is a great communicator, and has an interest in contributing to the full product lifecycle (design, implementation, release, operation).

Skills and experience_

• 5+ years experience as a software developer
• Experience working with Go
• Experience working with Linux, relational databases, Prometheus, git, and Bash
• Understanding of HTTP, TLS, and the web browser security model
• Experience designing, coding, optimizing, managing/deploying and troubleshooting highly-available, load-balanced, secure, HTTPS-accessible services
• Keen ability to communicate (verbally and in documentation) and share work with others on the team

About you_

• You're capable of developing criteria to prioritize tasks
• You're eager to collaborate with engineers to enhance the feature development process
• You possess self-awareness and a passion for continuous improvement
• You have a keen ability to communicate the thinking behind your decisions
• You can identify bottlenecks and bugs and devise solutions to these problems

Bonus points_

• Familiarity working with HTML, CSS, Javascript and/or GraphQL

Please include a short message about why you're interested in this role, and why you think you're a good fit.

Cmd is dedicated to providing an equal opportunity for all job seekers. Our commitment is to work with the best of the best, who share our passion for changing the landscape of security. If our mission speaks to you, we want to hear from you.

Your profile

Your profession excites you and have a genuine interest in what you do. You are looking for an employer who appreciates you as an individual and who is interested in helping you develop your personal and professional career path. Taking responsibility for your work means more than just showing up to the office every day. You’re willing and eager to help team members who are struggling with their own tasks. The quality of your work is of a consistently high standard. You're not afraid of challenging tasks and have ideally already gathered experience in mission critical and highly available applications.

Dealing with your colleagues in a respectful way is important to you, as well as possessing a system of values. However, you're not lacking a good sense of humour to keep the team spirit up!

You’re fluent in English and you enjoy working in a multicultural, interdisciplinary environment. Knowledge of German language is a plus but not a must. 

**Your professional qualification

**

• Profound knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript and proven track record of using it professionally
• Mastery of your own toolset (IDE, operating system, debugging tools, etc.)
• Familiarity with CSS pre-processors, CSS frameworks, build tools, bundlers
• Experience with a framework like React.js, Angular or Vue.js
• Strong analytical & problem-solving skills
• Experience with testing frontend apps (Jest, Enzyme, Cypress, etc.)
• Excellent communication skills

Non-EU residents: Please note that you need to fulfil the german Bluecard requirements in order to apply for this position.

What we're offering you

• An experienced team of highly motivated, skilled and interesting individuals
• A dynamic workplace giving you lots of opportunities for professional and personal development
• The opportunity to take on responsibility from the first moment on, building and shaping smart solutions
• A fair compensation packet with a full-time permanent contract
• Flexible working hours and a goal oriented approach
• We support you (and your family) with your relocation to Germany / Munich and assist you with the initial steps of your life in a new city / a new country
• The best possible technical equipment, no matter if you chose Mac or Linux

What you will do

Team up with our designers and developers to create great user experiences and reliable interfaces.

Work closely with our team to tie the front-end to our back-end infrastructure.

Implement new features and improve existing ones.

We use the latest technologies, including:

• ES6
• Webpack
• React
• Redux
• Typescript

Check our stack via https://stackshare.io/smallpdf/frontend

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in developing web-based user interfaces
• Outstanding skills in Javascript (including some knowledge in Node.js)
• An obsession for interactions, animations, and visual details
• CSS, TDD, Git and Linux experience
• Experience with React is a plus
• Can excel independently and have a sense of ownership for your own work
• Fluent English
• Based in Zurich or willing to relocate
• Swiss or EU passport holder (or other permits that allow you to work in Switzerland)

Angular Developer who loves TDD

Main project

Our main project is a learning management system (LMS) which allows learners to enroll and take courses online. Our primary customers are healthcare workers who are required to maintain their licenses by taking courses to get CEU’s (continuing education units)

This project has a frontend served with node, built with angular 2+ which consumes our backend application via RESTful API maintained by other team members. The backend is mostly php but you won’t need to touch that unless you really want to.

What you will be doing

• Adding new features to our LMS frontend application. This includes all UI/UX, design to development.
• Meet with stakeholders to understand our clients needs and propose solutions.
• Design functional user interfaces to meet those needs
• You bring your own unique skill set to
  the table and collaborate with others to accomplish your goals.
• Develop components backed by tests, code quality and tests are HIGHLY valued here, you will have time to make sure it is done right!
• Cleaning existing tightly coupled components that where not done right the first time…
• Migrate old features out of the legacy application. Best not to touch it lest it break, so just re-make it the right way!
• We are all about continuing education, you will be provided the time resources to learn and grow and we expect you to do so!
• You will be the lead frontend engineer, expected to mentor those under you.
• Review other team members pull requests and respond to feedback on your own.
• Prepare release candidates and respond to testing feedback (product owner manually tests things before they are approved to deploy)
• Look for ways to improve anything and propose your ideas. We want to hear them!

Day-to-day flow

• You’re part of an agile, multidisciplinary team. You bring your own unique skill set to
  the table and collaborate with others to accomplish your goals.
• One week sprints planned ahead in JIRA
• Super short daily stand-up in the afternoon
• Learn something new each day
• Enjoy flexible work hours while getting stuff done!

Our Dev Team

Company size is about 20 to 30 people. The dev team size is about 5, two frontend, two backend, and then a devops/backend guy who manages all kinds of stuff.  We collaborate, bounce ideas off each other, have fun.  We do TDD kata's and coding challenges just for fun.  We talk on slack and google meet.

Tools

• Slack
• Jira
• Github
• TravisCi or CircleCi (we have and use both for different things)
• Docker
• AWS

Languages and Frameworks

We need you to know JavaScript, TypeScript, Angular

Though others may be using PHP, Bash, Python, Go

Computers

Mac or Linux please, lets leave it at that :)

Must haves:

• JavaScript
• Angular 2+
• TypeScript
• TDD
• passion for clean, quality code that is maintainable!

Nice to haves:

• AngularJS (some legacy stuff needs re-done)
• Nodejs, storybook, cypress, jest
• Docker
• DevOps, CI/CD Pipeline
• Linux CLI

We offer:

• Money
• Flexible work schedule
• We pay for your training (udemy, pluralsight, cleancoders)
• 15 days paid time off (PTO)
• health, vision, dental, 401k, etc.