Senior Backend Engineer (Go)

Percona is looking for a remote Senior Backend Software Engineer to join the PMM team to build the next generation of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM), an open-source observability platform. The role involves designing and developing backend services in Go, working with observability technologies like OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and ClickHouse, and contributing to an open-source project.

• 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.

• 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.

• Flexible work hours and various paid time off programs.
• All equipment for your remote office.
• Funds for career development (external training, certifications, conferences).
• Ongoing connectivity allowances.
• Opportunity to participate in our equity incentive plan.
• Work/life balance programs: The Percona Adventure Team, Work-from-Anywhere, FlowDays, FryDays.
• Socially responsible programs: PAVE volunteering program and Women Transforming Technology.