Senior Backend Engineer, Go

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🔥 41 minutes ago

🇪🇺 Europe – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Percona

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2006

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Logistics • Marketing

Percona is an open source database software, support, and services company that helps enhance the performance and reliability of databases and applications. The company provides a variety of tools and services tailored for MySQL, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL databases, offering managed services, consulting, and training to support enterprises in managing their complex database environments. Percona is recognized for its commitment to open source solutions, ensuring that clients maintain control and secure access to their data without being locked into commercial licenses. Their solutions focus on scalability, proactive performance tuning, high availability, and security, serving thousands of customers with varied database needs. With a strong emphasis on community engagement and continuous innovation, Percona is dedicated to driving success and efficiency in database management.

📋 Description

• Design and develop reliable, scalable, and performant backend services and APIs in Go • Build features for monitoring, observability, troubleshooting, and management of database environments • Work with OpenTelemetry and observability signals including metrics, logs, and traces • Develop integrations with MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and other database technologies • Work with distributed systems, containers, Kubernetes, and cloud-native infrastructure • Design and evolve APIs and internal service architecture • Own complex features from technical design through implementation, testing, and delivery • Participate in code and architecture reviews and establish engineering best practices • Improve automated testing, CI/CD, developer tooling, and engineering productivity • Explore and adopt AI-assisted development, coding agents, and automation • Contribute to PMM as an open-source project and collaborate with the wider community

🎯 Requirements

• Strong backend engineering experience with significant production experience in Go • Strong understanding of software architecture, APIs, concurrency, and distributed systems • Experience designing, building, and documenting APIs • Experience with at least one of MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis/Valkey, or similar database technologies • Experience with observability, monitoring, metrics, logging, or tracing systems • Familiarity with OpenTelemetry concepts and architecture • Experience with automated testing and a strong focus on software quality • Comfortable working with Linux • Experience with Git and modern software development workflows • Experience with containers and cloud-native environments • Fluent written and spoken English • Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fully remote team • Experience with OpenTelemetry, including OTLP, collectors, metrics, logs, or traces • Experience with Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, ClickHouse, Grafana, or similar observability technologies • Experience building or operating distributed observability platforms • Deep knowledge of database internals or database performance monitoring • Experience with Docker and Kubernetes • Experience building secure distributed systems and working with encryption, authentication, and authorization • Experience contributing to or maintaining open-source projects • Experience using AI coding tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, or similar tools • Experience building AI-powered developer workflows, agents, or engineering automation • Experience with MCP, agent tool integration, or similar agent interoperability frameworks • Experience with LLM APIs, agent frameworks, or AI-assisted troubleshooting / observability systems • Experience improving engineering productivity through automation and developer tooling

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible work hours • Various paid time off programs • Equipment for your remote office • Funds for career development, including external training, certifications, and conferences • Ongoing connectivity allowances • Opportunity to participate in the equity incentive plan • The Percona Adventure Team • Work-from-Anywhere • FlowDays • FryDays • Overall work/life flexibility • PAVE volunteering program • Women Transforming Technology

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