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Overview

Join to apply for the VP of Engineering (Remote) role at Percona. Percona, a leading provider of open-source database software and services, is seeking a technical VP of Engineering to join our team. This isn't a VP of Engineering role focused on managing asingle product or team; rather, you'll be a key leader in orchestrating technical excellence across multiple engineering groups. This is a fully remote position, and you'll have the opportunity to work alongside a diverse, global team of passionate open-source enthusiasts. You are a high-level strategic thinker with a keen eye for technical detail, and youre not afraid to roll up your sleeves to identify and solve complex problems.

What You Will Do:

• Lead Technical Transformation: Identify and drive technical initiatives to improve quality, efficiency, and reliability across our engineering organization. This includes optimizing our software development lifecycle (SDLC) and helping teams use AI to become more efficient and free up time for product innovation.
• Mentor and Coach: Act as a technical mentor and coach for engineering leaders and senior individual contributors, helping them grow and excel in their roles.
• Define and Evangelize Best Practices: Establish and promote engineering best practices, standards, and processes to ensure consistency and excellence across the organization.
• Strategic Planning: Collaborate with executive leadership and product management to align technical strategy with business goals.

What we are looking for

• Extensive Experience: You have at least five years of experience in engineering leadership, with a strong background in architecture and technical strategy. Knowledge of database internals is useful but not required.
• Technical Acumen: You possess deep, hands-on technical knowledge of software development, with a strong understanding of open-source technologies, databases, and cloud-native architectures.
• Transformational Leadership: You have a proven track record of driving significant technical and process improvements across multiple teams or business units covering testing, building, and shipping enterprise-grade software.
• Exceptional Communicator: You can articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Collaborative Spirit: You thrive in a collaborative, remote-first environment and can build strong relationships with stakeholders at all levels.

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 remote-only and globally dispersed with colleagues in more than 50 countries. We offer a collaborative, highly-engaged culture where your ideas are welcome and your voice is heard.

Benefits

Our staff receive generous benefits including flexible work hours and various paid time off programs, equipment for remote work, funds for career development (external training, certifications, conferences), connectivity allowances, and participation in our equity incentive plan. We support work/life balance and programs such as The Percona Adventure Team, Work-from-Anywhere, FlowDays, FryDays, and opportunities for volunteering through PAVE and Women Transforming Technology.

Next steps

If you love the idea of working with a high-growth tech company that is a global leader in the open-source database space, lets talk. Connect with us and stay up to date on our latest news and developments by following us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Details

• Seniority level: Executive
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries: Software Development