C/C++ Software Development Engineer (Remote)

Percona

📍 Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

Remote Full-time Computer Occupations Posted February 27, 2026

Job Description

As an Upstream Contributor at Percona, you will play a crucial role in the open-source ecosystem. Your primary responsibility will be to improve the Valkey project by actively contributing code, advocating best practices, and fostering a collaborative environment within the core Valkey and Redis community. You'll also work closely with Percona’s engineering, product, and community teams to provide insights that will guide the development of Percona's add-ons, extensions, and integrations.

What You Will Do

  • As a core contributor, roughly 80% of your time will be spent contributing to Valkey’s codebase helping to deliver against its roadmap.
  • During the the remaining 20% you will:
  • Actively participate in community discussions, maintain a visible presence in mailing lists or forums, and contribute to documentation.
  • Serve as the bridge between the Valkey team and our own product, engineering, and community teams to ensure the compatibility and...