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Staff Production Engineer, Database Infrastructure

GitHub· Engineering
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Hybrid (United States)$140.4k - $372.3kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

GitHub is seeking a Staff Production Engineer to scale its data platform for millions of developers. The role focuses on reliability, partnering with product teams, building SDKs and tooling, defining SLOs, writing documentation, and participating in incident response in a remote, distributed environment.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with product and feature teams by joining design reviews and shaping how they model, access, and scale their data so the applications they build are performant, available, and operable at GitHub's scale
  • Design and ship SDKs, client libraries, and the tooling applications are built on
  • Define and maintain SLOs and operational standards for GitHub's database platform, and use them to drive prioritization
  • Write technical documentation and advocate for the health and quality of the systems the team builds
  • Participate in an on-call rotation and respond to incidents as needed
  • Contribute to plans for disaster recovery, load shedding, and regional failover

Qualifications

  • 9+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python (or equivalent combinations listed) OR Associate’s Degree with 8+ years experience OR Bachelor's Degree with 7+ years experience OR Master's Degree with 5+ years experience OR Doctorate with 3+ years experience OR equivalent experience
  • 3+ years experience operating large-scale distributed systems in production, including participation in an on-call rotation.

Skills

Required:Distributed systems
Last updated Aug 20, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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