Practice Lead: AWS

Percona provides open source database software, support and services across MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL and MariaDB. The company is remote-only and globally dispersed, with colleagues in more than 50 countries.

The role

The Practice Lead for AWS is a hands-on leadership position focused on helping customers get the most from open-source databases running on AWS and the wider AWS ecosystem around them — EKS, Aurora, RDS, ElastiCache, MSK and similar services.

The primary focus is database environments, but the Lead also provides architectural guidance across the surrounding infrastructure wherever it affects database performance, cost or reliability.

That combination is the interesting part. It sits between deep database expertise and broader cloud architecture, in a company whose entire business is open source databases rather than a cloud consultancy that happens to touch them.

What the work involves

Based on the role summary Percona publishes:

• Acting as a hands-on technical leader rather than a purely strategic one
• Helping customers optimise open-source databases running on AWS
• Providing architectural guidance across EKS, Aurora, RDS, ElastiCache, MSK and related services
• Advising where surrounding infrastructure choices affect database performance, cost or reliability

Working environment at Percona

Two company-wide practices stand out:

• Fridays are designated no-meeting days, protected for deep work, difficult problems or learning new technologies
• Work is organised in defined timeframes and scopes, deliberately minimising shifting priorities, with planning done collaboratively across the team, Product and customer insights

Percona describes itself as remote-first and expects active, proactive communication through Slack, Zoom and Jira across time zones. Travel is not usually required, though there are occasional conference or meetup opportunities.

Benefits

• Flexible work hours and various paid time off programmes
• All equipment for your remote office
• Funds for career development, covering external training, certifications and conferences
• Ongoing connectivity allowances
• Participation in the equity incentive plan
• Work-from-Anywhere, FlowDays, FryDays and the Percona Adventure Team
• PAVE volunteering programme and Women Transforming Technology

No salary figures are published on this listing.

Location — one thing to confirm before applying

Percona is remote-only and hires across more than 50 countries, so no country is excluded as a matter of company policy.

However, Percona scopes its roles by time zone band rather than by country. Their PostgreSQL Technical Writer listing, for example, states a team median of UTC-2 with a recommended range of ±4 hours.

The portion of this posting that is publicly retrievable does not include a Location and time zone block, so the specific band for this role is not stated here. Given the role is customer-facing and covers AWS practice leadership, coverage expectations may well be tied to a particular customer region.

Check the full listing on the apply page for the Location and time zone section before investing time in an application.