Remote Developer Advocate: Write, Speak & Build Source

We’re hiring a Developer Advocate

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. Your job is to make Percona’s solutions easier to learn, use, and talk about — through content, code, conversation, and showing up where developers and DBAs already are. Whether you are already a Developer Advocate or coming from a senior engineering, DBA, consulting, or customer‑facing technical role, you must write, speak, and engage with technical people as a peer and have production experience to do it credibly.

• Create technical content: tutorials, deep‑dives blog posts, reference guides, video walkthroughs, and demos that solve named problems.
• Speak in public: conference talks, webinars, meetups, podcasts, live streams – from ten people in a room to several hundred online. Percona will support you to build a speaking presence.
• Engage upstream: show up in the communities behind MySQL, Postgre
  
  SQL, Mongo
  
  DB, Valkey, Kubernetes, and others – contribute, answer questions, file quality bug reports, and represent Percona as a credible technical voice.
• Engage with the Percona community: be active on Forum, Discord, Git Hub, social platforms, and at Percona events. Welcome new contributors and help people find the next rung on the ladder.
• Cover Percona’s open‑source portfolio:
  Percona Server for MySQL, Percona Server for Mongo
  
  DB (PSMDB), Percona Server for Postgre
  
  SQL, Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC), Percona Xtra Backup, Percona Backup for Mongo
  
  DB (PBM), Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM), and Percona Operators. You need not be an expert in all of these on day one, but you must be willing to become one.
• Close the feedback loop: bring pain points, missing docs, confusing UX, and feature requests from the field back to Product and Engineering in actionable form.
• Partner across teams: work with Marketing, Product, Engineering, and Support so the technical story stays accurate and useful.

• Real technical depth: several years in a hands‑on technical role (engineering, DBA, SRE, solutions architecture, developer advocacy, or similar) working with databases in production or with the developers who do.
• Strong writing: you can take a messy technical topic and turn it into something a tired engineer can actually follow at 11 pm on a Tuesday.
• Public speaking – or the appetite to grow into it: a track record of talks, workshops, or a strong technical blog or You Tube channel; if you’re earlier in that journey, show that you want to build it.
• Coding chops: comfortable in at least one of Python, Go, JavaScript/Type Script, Java, or Rust; enough to write demos, build sample apps, and read source code when needed.
• Open source instincts: you understand how open‑source communities work and the difference between participating in a community and marketing at one.
• Willingness to travel: roughly 10–50 % depending on the event calendar and what you’re working on.

• Existing contributions to open‑source projects, especially in the database, observability, or Kubernetes ecosystems.
• Experience with AI/ML workloads on databases – vector search, RAG, embeddings at scale.
• A presence in developer communities people already recognize – a blog with regular readers, a You Tube channel, conference talks, an active Git Hub.
• Experience building or running developer programs, community events, or contributor onboarding.

Remote‑only, globally dispersed workforce across 50 + countries. Flexible work hours, paid time off programs, all equipment for your remote office, funds for career development (external training, certifications, conferences), connectivity allowances, and equity incentive plan participation. Work‑from‑anywhere flexibility, Flow Days, Fry Days, and The Percona Adventure Team support a healthy work/life balance. Socially responsible volunteering program (PAVE) and Women Transforming Technology program.