Overview

Percona is a respected thought leader in the global open source community. We provide services and software for MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Valkey and MariaDB. Remote-first and globally dispersed, Percona offers a collaborative, highly-engaged culture where your ideas are welcome and your voice is heard. We are looking for a Content Marketing Writer to join our team. If you excel in creating high-quality and engaging content across digital platforms — think blogs, white papers, online articles, infographics, and other marketing materials – we want you! The Content Marketing Writer will be a key part of the Percona Marketing team, and will be responsible for creating, updating, and enhancing content aligned to Percona’s overall content strategy and editorial guidelines. The successful individual will help drive awareness, engagement, product education, and revenue through expert content creation across a variety of channels. The position reports to the Director of Content Marketing. All applications must include a portfolio of 3-5 writing samples, inclusive of both short- and long-form published work. Submissions without portfolios will not be considered.

What You Will Do

• Concept, develop, write, edit, and format short- and long-form marketing content including blogs, ebooks, white papers, online articles, infographics, event collateral, demand generation emails, customer case studies, and other marketing materials.
• Interview and communicate with leadership and SMEs to develop internal and external content.
• Explore and develop new ideas for content through research, industry trends and internal data.
• Proofread and edit content produced by stakeholders across the business, ensuring all work is polished , grammatically correct, and aligned with overall content strategy and editorial guidelines.

What You Have Done

• Exceptional writing and editing skills, with a strong portfolio of published work that demonstrates original, consistent, and high-quality writing.
• 3-5 years of customer-facing marketing writing for B2B technology audiences.
• Hands-on experience using AI tools to speed up research and early drafts, with final output shaped through careful human editing.
• Experience with SEO tools and content platforms like BrightEdge, Semrush, Clearscope, Asana, HubSpot, or WordPress.
• Working knowledge of SEO and content marketing best practices.
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university in Journalism, English, Marketing or related field.

Why Percona?

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 & services. We make databases & applications run better through a unique combination of expertise & open source software built with the community for you. Our technical teams are experts in MySQL MongoDB PostgreSQL & MariaDB. Percona is proud to be a remote-only & globally dispersed workforce – we have colleagues in more than 50 countries! We offer a collaborative highly-engaged culture where your ideas are welcome & your voice is heard. Our staff receives generous benefits including flexible work hours & various paid time off programs all your equipment for your remote office funds for career development (external training certifications conferences) ongoing connectivity allowances & opportunity to participate in our equity incentive plan. We also have benefits that support healthy work/life balance such as The Percona Adventure Team Work-from-Anywhere FlowDays FryDays & overall flexibility. We also support being socially responsible through our PAVE volunteering program & Women Transforming Technology.

Application:

• Must include portfolio of 3–5 writing samples (short & long form).

Additional info:

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