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Staff Systems Engineer, Database Infrastructure

GitHub· Engineering
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Remote$140.4k - $372.3kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

GitHub is seeking a Staff Systems Engineer to join the Database Infrastructure team. The role focuses on reliability and scalability of GitHub's database fleet, operating across self-managed and cloud-managed infrastructure, with on-call responsibilities and Azure migration involvement.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build core components of GitHub's database platform across our self-managed and cloud-managed infrastructure
  • Be a subject matter expert on database internals and database administration within GitHub
  • Work closely with engineering teams across GitHub to understand how they use our databases, support them through design reviews, and bring their needs back into the team's planning
  • Operate and improve replication topology and failover automation including primaries, replica tiers, promotion, cross-region replication, zonal and regional failover, and backup and restore, along with the tooling that makes all of it easy
  • Operate the components our databases run on. Manage kernel tuning, storage configuration, and compute and disk SKU selection to meet throughput, latency, and durability targets
  • Contribute to capacity planning for the database fleet including instance sizing, reserved capacity strategy, and migrating to new VM and disk generations as they become available
  • Participate in an on-call rotation and respond to incidents as needed
  • Contribute to how our fleet evolves onto Azure (cloud migration)

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 Associate’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience delivering production software coding in these languages
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field AND 7+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience delivering production software coding in these languages
  • OR Master's Degree 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 delivering production software coding in these languages
  • OR Doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience delivering production software coding in these languages
  • OR equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Programming in Go
Nice to have:PythonMySQL internals

Benefits

  • This position will be open for a minimum of 3 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Last updated Aug 20, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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