Senior Software Engineer (C++ / Mongo) (Remote)

Percona seeks a talented and dynamic senior C++ software engineer to join its software development team. You will be crucial in designing, developing, and optimizing new features for our Percona Server for MongoDB (PSMDB). You will also collaborate closely with the team building Percona Backup for MongoDB and other teams focused on enhancing the value of PSMDB. We have big ambitions for bringing innovative enterprise-grade functionality to the MongoDB community and are looking for the right person to bring energy and optimism to the team!

What Will You Do:

• Collaborate with a geographically distributed team to design and implement new features that extend PSMDB’s core functionality.

• Analyze and enhance MongoDB's performance by working with storage engines (e.g., WiredTiger), developing optimizations for high-throughput environments, and debugging performance bottlenecks.

• Participate in code reviews to ensure high-quality software. Engage with the broader MongoDB open-source community by submitting and reviewing pull requests (PRs) and addressing issues the community raises.

• Work closely with product managers, QA teams, and community contributors to shape PSMDB’s roadmap and prioritize features that bring the most outstanding value.

• Build robust and resilient database solutions focusing on ensuring data integrity, fault tolerance, and high availability across distributed systems.

• Contribute to upstream projects we leverage to bring our solutions to the community.

• Blog, present, and evangelize our software to help increase adoption and keep our thriving community growing

• Engage with other departments in Percona to ensure we’re delivering value-driven solutions.

What Have You Done:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience

• Minimum 5+ years of experience in C++ development and object-oriented design

• Strong understanding of NoSQL databases and large-scale distributed systems, preferably MongoDB

• Strong knowledge of compression and encryption algorithms and techniques

• Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery tools such as Jenkins, CircleCI, and Travis

• Experience with high concurrency threading models, atomics, and locking primitives

• Knowledge of various programming and scripting  languages such as BASH, JavaScript, and Python

• Working with tools like profiler, gdb, and strace for debugging

What Will Make You Stand Out

• Deep and hands-on experience with memory management, multithreading, and system-level programming

• Contributions to MongoDB or similar open-source projects that demonstrate your expertise and community engagement

• Experience in Linux systems administration, including suitable expertise with file systems, hardware, and networking

Why Percona?

At Percona, we believe an open world is a better world. Our mission is to enable everyone to innovate freely, by providing the best open source database software, support, and services. We make databases and applications run better through a unique combination of expertise and open source software built with the community for you. Our technical teams are experts in MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and MariaDB.

Percona is proud to be a remote-only and globally dispersed workforce – 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 various paid time off programs, all your equipment for your remote office, funds for career development (external training, certifications, conferences), ongoing connectivity allowances, and the opportunity to participate in our equity incentive plan. We also have benefits that support a healthy work/life balance such as The Percona Adventure Team, Work-from-Anywhere, FlowDays, FryDays, and overall flexibility. We also support being socially responsible through our PAVE volunteering program and Women Transforming Technology.

If you love the idea of working with a high-growth tech company that is one of the best in the business and known globally as a leader in the open-source database space, let’s talk!

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