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Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

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Senior level
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Senior level
The SDET will enhance software quality by managing testing protocols, debugging issues, mentoring juniors, and improving automated testing frameworks.
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Percona takes pride in delivering stable and reliable software to our users. We are looking for a flexible and efficient SDET engineer to join our QA team. In this role, you will support our distributed engineering team by maintaining and improving the quality of our software products as part of the release process and in an ongoing fashion. This includes tasks such as analyzing and reporting defects captured by our automated testing frameworks, defining and implementing new test cases, and improving and scaling our testing capabilities and infrastructure.

You will work from your home office, using online tools and resources to contribute to a high-quality QA environment for Percona and its customers.

Some international travel will be involved for company-internal meetings and attending conferences. Access to a reliable high-speed internet connection is required. Flexible work hours. Laptop & Internet access provided.

What You Will Do:

  • Evaluate and improve Percona products and new features based on QA plans, locating product issues & bugs

  • Monitor and analyze/log failures of automated regression, performance, packaging, and/or other automated QA systems

  • Serve as a mentor to junior SDETs, guiding best practices in testing, coding, and debugging, particularly in large-scale distributed database systems.

  • Research and recommend tools, behaviors, and strategies for making testing better

  • Utilize scripting languages such as Shell or Python to enhance testing and improve automation


What You Have Done:

  • Solid debugging skills and experience (e.g., analyzing log files, core dumps, spotting patterns)

  • Familiarity with database internals (replication, optimizer, storage engines)

  • Good knowledge of test methods in agile software development environments

  • Experience with tools for tracking and documenting development processes (git) is an advantage.

  • Solid Linux sysadmin skills (e.g., adding/removing software, enabling/disabling services, general Unix/Linux CLI tools)

  • Working with automation tools (CI/CD)

  • Automating tasks using Bash or Python

  • Experience with networking, hardware, file systems, server connectivity, etc.

  • Good communicator & fluent in written and spoken English

  • Quick learner and a great team player

What Will Make You Stand Out:

  • Previous exposure and experience in database-related technologies, for example, in a DBA, support, or development role

  • Experience in Linux systems administration

  • Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills

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

  • Experience with compiling/building/packaging/release engineering/yum/apt

  • Coding skills in any language, preferably C/C++ or Python

  • Previous experience with container or virtualization environments

  • Proven success working in a distributed environment

  • Supplemental MySQL technologies

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 and Twitter. We look forward to connecting with you!

Top Skills

Bash
C/C++
Ci/Cd
Git
Mariadb
MongoDB
MySQL
Postgres
Python
Shell

Percona Dublin, Dublin, IRL Office

Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

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