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GitHub · 5 hours ago

Senior Engineering Manager - Database Reliability

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$113K/yr - $299K/yr

6+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Scale our database and application across multiple regions and in the Cloud.

Oversee and guide a distributed team, guiding the team’s vision, best practices, and priorities.

Provide clarity and a shared understanding of decision making, direction, and progress for the team and the company.

Meeting 1-1 with team members on a regular basis.

Provide career development plans and guided performance feedback.

Review code, design docs and lead small group discussions about technical problems

Drive incident response and facilitate blameless postmortems

Plan and execute complex technical projects, coordinating work with engineering teams across the stack.

Qualification

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Distributed SystemsCC++C#JavaJavaScriptGoRubyRustPythonPeople ManagementMySQLCloud PlatformsReliability EngineeringHigh AvailabilityVitessAzureAWSTechnical Documentation

Required

6+ 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 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 Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ 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 2+ 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

OR equivalent experience

2+ years experience building, scaling and maintaining distributed, highly available systems

1+ years of direct and/or indirect people management or leadership experience

Preferred

Strong communication skills with experience in design and strategy documentation

Passionate about high availability infrastructure and engineering best practices

Experienced in distributed teams, MySQL/Vitess, and cloud platforms (Azure, AWS)

Skilled in reliability engineering, on-call support, and production environment maintenance

Expertise in designing large-scale cloud services and distributed systems

Data-driven decision maker with strong analytical skills in risk management and prioritization

Benefits

Annual bonus

Stock

Competitive pay

Generous learning and growth opportunities

Company

GitHub

Glassdoor

3.8

GitHub is a software company that offers code hosting services that allow developers to build software for open-source and private projects. It is a sub-organization of Microsoft.

Founded in 2008

San Francisco, California, USA

501-1,000 employees

https://github.com

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