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Principal Production Engineer, Database Infrastructure

GitHub· Engineering
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Hybrid (Remote United States)$160.2k - $425kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

GitHub is seeking a Principal Production Engineer to scale its data platform for millions of developers. The role focuses on reliability, partnering with product teams, designing and shipping SDKs and tooling, setting reliability strategy for database platforms, documentation, on-call incident response, and disaster recovery planning in a highly distributed, remote-friendly environment.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with product and feature teams by leading 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
  • Set reliability strategy for GitHub's database platforms across multiple systems, defining SLOs and operational standards
  • 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
  • Develop and design plans for disaster recovery, load shedding, and regional failover
  • The team is highly distributed across geographies and time zones, and you will thrive in an environment of remote work and asynchronous communication.

Qualifications

  • 11+ 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 Associate's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 10+ 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 Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field AND 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 Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 7+ 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 Doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ 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 experience.
  • 5+ years experience operating large-scale distributed systems in production, including participation in an on-call rotation.

Skills

Required:Design reviewsReliability engineeringIncident response / on-call
Nice to have:Disaster recovery planning

Benefits

  • equity
  • annual bonus
  • stock
  • benefits depending on role and location
Last updated Aug 20, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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