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title: 'Senior Backend Engineer (Go) at Percona'
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# Senior Backend Engineer (Go) at Percona

- **Company:** Percona
- **Location:** EMEA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-10-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/percona/94c8439d-9db3-4238-a073-9c21a0409e90

## Job description

Percona is looking for a remote, full-time Senior Backend Software Engineer to join the PMM team and help build the next generation of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM). PMM is a free and open-source observability and database management platform for monitoring, troubleshooting, and managing MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and the infrastructure they run on. You will work primarily on the backend of PMM, building services, APIs, database integrations, and distributed components in Go. You will work with modern observability technologies including OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, ClickHouse, metrics, logs, and traces, while helping us evolve PMM toward an increasingly automated and agentic observability platform. We are also actively exploring how AI coding tools, AI agents, automation, MCP, and LLM-based workflows can improve both the PMM product and the way we develop software.

## What You Will Do

- 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.
- Take ownership of complex features from technical design through implementation, testing, and delivery.
- Participate in code and architecture reviews and help establish engineering best practices.
- Improve automated testing, CI/CD, developer tooling, and engineering productivity.
- Explore and adopt AI-assisted development, coding agents, and automation where they improve engineering effectiveness.
- Contribute to PMM as an open-source project and collaborate with the wider community.

## What You Have Done

- 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.

What Will Make You Stand Out

- Strong practical 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 as part of your engineering workflow.
- Experience building AI-powered developer workflows, agents, or engineering automation.
- Experience with MCP (Model Context Protocol), agent tool integration, or similar agent interoperability frameworks.
- Experience working with LLM APIs, agent frameworks, or AI-assisted troubleshooting / observability systems.
- Experience improving engineering productivity through automation and developer tooling.

<!--WEB-ONLY--> 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!

Connect with us and stay up to date on our latest news and developments by following us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?fetchDeterministicClustersOnly=true&heroEntityKey=urn:li:organization:421929&keywords=percona&origin=RICH_QUERY_TYPEAHEAD_HISTORY&position=0&searchId=29912b91-aeb0-4aa6-b3ab-fc70c59fa57f&sid=u0N) and [Twitter](https://twitter.com/Percona?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor). We look forward to connecting with you!

## About Percona

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Percona builds enterprise-grade open source database software and provides expert support, managed services, and training for MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Valkey/Redis, and MariaDB, with a focus on freedom from vendor lock-in.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Bootstrapped)
- **Headquarters**: Global (Remote-first); no single physical office disclosed in sources
- **Founded**: 2006
- **Founders**: Peter Zaitsev and Vadim Tkachenko

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Database software and services (open source infrastructure)
- **Target customers**: B2B – Enterprises and SMBs running database workloads on-premises, in the cloud, or on Kubernetes
- **Mission / Purpose**: “We believe in open source. Full stop.” – Defending open source since 2006, building software that’s free from lock-in, licensing traps, and vendor agendas.

## Products & Services
- **Percona Server for MySQL**: Enterprise-grade, drop-in replacement for MySQL with enhanced performance, security, and observability.
- **Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL**: Open source PostgreSQL distribution with bundled extensions, tools, and Kubernetes Operator.
- **Percona Distribution for MongoDB**: Production-ready MongoDB distribution with advanced management and backup tools.
- **Percona for Valkey / Redis**: Support and tooling for Valkey and Redis, including Kubernetes Operators and performance tuning.
- **Expert Support**: 24×7 incident response, troubleshooting, and advisory for all supported databases.
- **ExpertOps Proactive Database Management**: Hands-on, proactive management to keep environments stable, tuned, and monitored.
- **Managed Services**: Project-based consulting, architecture changes, and deep technical problem solving.
- **Training**: Instructor-led, hands-on training for MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Valkey/Redis.
- **Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)**: Free, open source database observability platform (PMM 3.0.0 released in 2025).
- **Percona Toolkit & XtraBackup**: Command-line tool sets and backup solutions for MySQL/MariaDB.
- **Kubernetes Operators**: Certified Kubernetes Services Provider for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: 4.2 million+ downloads per month; 350 teammates across 52 countries
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: None disclosed (bootstrapped)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Launched Valkey packages and support in 2025
  - Released PG_TDE Extension and PMM 3.0.0
  - Named a Kubernetes Certified Services Provider for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB
  - 2024 Inc. Best Workplaces award winner
  - High employee satisfaction: 92% approve of CEO, 93% job satisfaction, 85% would recommend to a friend (from careers page)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Vendor‑neutral, open source commitment**: No lock‑in, no bloated licensing fees – full control remains with the customer.
- **Multi‑database expertise**: Deep support across MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Valkey/Redis, and MariaDB.
- **Engineering‑led culture**: Actively contributes code and tooling upstream; runs Percona Live community events.
- **Remote‑first since 2006**: Mature distributed work model with proven global talent acquisition.
- **Kubernetes native**: Certified Kubernetes Service Provider, enabling consistent deployment across on‑prem, hybrid, and multi‑cloud.

## Strategic Focus
- **Modernize for AI & analytics**: Help customers handle emerging workloads without replatforming or feature lock‑in.
- **Security & sovereignty**: Deliver transparent, verifiable database security that keeps data control and compliance in customer hands.
- **Cost optimization**: Cut licensing waste and cloud overprovisioning through open source alternatives.
- **Expand Valkey ecosystem**: Invest in Valkey as the open source fork of Redis, providing packages, operators, and support.
- **Continuous innovation**: Release new features like PMM 3.0, PG_TDE, and Kubernetes Operators to stay ahead of enterprise needs.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote‑only culture**: Fully remote since 2006; flexible hours and no geography constraint.
- **Work‑life balance perks**: “FryDays” (quarterly 3‑day weekends), “Flow Day” (uninterrupted focus time), and a wellness allowance and counseling program.
- **Learning & growth**: Dedicated Learning Academy; strong investment in personal and professional development.
- **Values‑driven environment**: “Customer > Percona > Team > Me”, “Find a Better Way”, “Get Stuff Done” – results‑oriented with high autonomy.
- **Great place to work**: 2024 Inc. Best Workplaces winner; 92% CEO approval, 93% job satisfaction, 93% positive view of colleagues.
- **Diverse, global team**: Teammates in 52 countries; inclusive hiring across technical and non‑technical backgrounds.

## Sources
1. [percona.com/about](https://www.percona.com/about/)
2. [percona.com](https://www.percona.com/)
3. [percona.com/careers](https://www.percona.com/careers/)
4. [percona.com/resource/percona-overview](https://www.percona.com/resource/percona-overview/)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/percona](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/percona)

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