Developer Advocate (Remote)

<p style="min-height:1.5em">Percona believes enterprise-class database software should be accessible to everyone. Powerful software is rarely simple, though, and that gap is where developers get stuck.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We're hiring a <strong>Developer Advocate</strong> to close that gap. Your job is to make Percona's solutions easier to learn, easier to use, and easier to talk about — through content, code, conversation, and showing up where developers and DBAs already are.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">You might already be a Developer Advocate, or you might be coming into advocacy from a senior engineering, DBA, consulting, or other customer-facing technical role. Either works. What matters is that you can write, speak, and engage with technical people as a peer — and that you've got the production experience behind you to do it credibly.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>What You Will Do</strong></h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Create technical content:</strong>Tutorials, deep-dive blog posts, reference guides, video walkthroughs, and demos. Content that actually solves a named problem, not surface-level "getting started" filler.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Speak in public:</strong> Conference talks, webinars, meetups, podcasts, livestreams. Audiences from ten people in a room to several hundred online. We'll back you to build a speaking presence if you don't already have one.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Engage upstream:</strong> Show up in the communities behind the open source projects Percona builds on — MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Valkey, Kubernetes, and others. Contribute, answer questions, file good bug reports, and represent Percona as a credible technical voice.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Engage with the Percona community:</strong> Be active on the Percona Forum, Discord, GitHub, social platforms, and at Percona events. Welcome new contributors. Recognize active ones. Help people find the next rung on the ladder.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Cover Percona's open source portfolio:</strong> Percona Server for MySQL, Percona Server for MongoDB (PSMDB), Percona Server for PostgreSQL, Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC), Percona XtraBackup, Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM), Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM), Percona Operators, and Percona Everest. You don't need to be an expert in all of these on day one. You do need to be willing to become one.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Close the feedback loop:</strong> What you hear in the field — pain points, missing docs, confusing UX, feature requests — gets back to Product and Engineering in a form they can act on.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Partner across teams:</strong> Work with Marketing, Product, Engineering, and Support so the technical story stays accurate and useful.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>What You Have Done</strong></h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Real technical depth:</strong> Several years in a hands-on technical role — engineering, DBA, SRE, solutions architecture, developer advocacy, or similar. You've worked with databases in production, or you've worked with the developers who do.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Strong writing:</strong> You can take a messy technical topic and turn it into something a tired engineer can actually follow at 11pm on a Tuesday.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Public speaking — or the appetite to grow into it:</strong> A track record of talks, workshops, or a strong technical blog or YouTube channel is great. If you're earlier in that journey, show us you want to build it.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Coding chops:</strong> Comfortable in at least one of Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, or Rust. Enough to write demos, build sample apps, and read source code when you need to.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Open source instincts:</strong> You understand how open source communities work. You know the difference between participating in a community and marketing at one.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Willingness to travel:</strong> Roughly 10–50%, depending on the event calendar and what you're working on.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>What Will Make You Stand Out</strong></h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Existing contributions to open source projects, especially in the database, observability, or Kubernetes ecosystems.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience with AI/ML workloads on databases — vector search, RAG, embeddings at scale.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">A presence in developer communities people already recognize — a blog with regular readers, a YouTube channel, conference talks, an active GitHub.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience building or running developer programs, community events, or contributor onboarding.</p></li></ul><h3></h3><p style="min-height:1.5em">Percona builds some of the best database software in the world and keeps it freely available, so teams can run serious workloads without paying the "enterprise" tax. We're an open source company in the real sense — code in the open, conversations in the open, problems debugged in public.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">If you want to spend your time helping developers and DBAs actually use this stuff well, you'll have room to do that here!</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><!--WEB-ONLY--></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Why Percona?</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">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.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">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.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">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.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">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!</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Connect with us and stay up to date on our latest news and developments by following us on <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="postings-link" href="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">LinkedIn</a> and <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="postings-link" href="https://twitter.com/Percona?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">Twitter</a>. We look forward to connecting with you!</p>

Back to blog

Common Interview Questions And Answers

1. HOW DO YOU PLAN YOUR DAY?

This is what this question poses: When do you focus and start working seriously? What are the hours you work optimally? Are you a night owl? A morning bird? Remote teams can be made up of people working on different shifts and around the world, so you won't necessarily be stuck in the 9-5 schedule if it's not for you...

2. HOW DO YOU USE THE DIFFERENT COMMUNICATION TOOLS IN DIFFERENT SITUATIONS?

When you're working on a remote team, there's no way to chat in the hallway between meetings or catch up on the latest project during an office carpool. Therefore, virtual communication will be absolutely essential to get your work done...

3. WHAT IS "WORKING REMOTE" REALLY FOR YOU?

Many people want to work remotely because of the flexibility it allows. You can work anywhere and at any time of the day...

4. WHAT DO YOU NEED IN YOUR PHYSICAL WORKSPACE TO SUCCEED IN YOUR WORK?

With this question, companies are looking to see what equipment they may need to provide you with and to verify how aware you are of what remote working could mean for you physically and logistically...

5. HOW DO YOU PROCESS INFORMATION?

Several years ago, I was working in a team to plan a big event. My supervisor made us all work as a team before the big day. One of our activities has been to find out how each of us processes information...

6. HOW DO YOU MANAGE THE CALENDAR AND THE PROGRAM? WHICH APPLICATIONS / SYSTEM DO YOU USE?

Or you may receive even more specific questions, such as: What's on your calendar? Do you plan blocks of time to do certain types of work? Do you have an open calendar that everyone can see?...

7. HOW DO YOU ORGANIZE FILES, LINKS, AND TABS ON YOUR COMPUTER?

Just like your schedule, how you track files and other information is very important. After all, everything is digital!...

8. HOW TO PRIORITIZE WORK?

The day I watched Marie Forleo's film separating the important from the urgent, my life changed. Not all remote jobs start fast, but most of them are...

9. HOW DO YOU PREPARE FOR A MEETING AND PREPARE A MEETING? WHAT DO YOU SEE HAPPENING DURING THE MEETING?

Just as communication is essential when working remotely, so is organization. Because you won't have those opportunities in the elevator or a casual conversation in the lunchroom, you should take advantage of the little time you have in a video or phone conference...

10. HOW DO YOU USE TECHNOLOGY ON A DAILY BASIS, IN YOUR WORK AND FOR YOUR PLEASURE?

This is a great question because it shows your comfort level with technology, which is very important for a remote worker because you will be working with technology over time...