GitHub · 6 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer, Database Infrastructure
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$124K/yr - $329K/yr
6+ years expGitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development, and they are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Database Infrastructure team. The role focuses on ensuring the reliability and scalability of the databases that power GitHub, and involves designing and building core infrastructure while also maintaining tooling for database systems.
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Responsibilities
Design and build a core part of GitHub’s infrastructure, work to scale our database solution
Be a subject matter expert on MySQL and database administration within GitHub
Cultivate open source projects developed at GitHub and build things you are proud to share
Design, develop and maintain tooling for operating database systems and self-service tooling for GitHub developers
Write technical documentation on how to use internal tooling and best practices for leveraging MySQL
Escalate risks and advocate for the health and quality of the systems that the team builds
Participate in an on-call rotation and respond to incidents as needed
Develop and design plans for disaster recovery and systems failovers
The team is highly distributed across geographies and timezones, and you will thrive in an environment of remote work and asynchronous communication
Qualification
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
3+ years experience in using monitoring tooling such as Datadog, Sentry, Prometheus, VividCortex, or similar to diagnose performance or availability issues
3+ years experience building, deploying and maintaining databases at scale such as MySQL or PostgreSQL in Linux environments
Preferred
Excitement about building, operating, and maintaining resilient, scalable systems that impact a global community of users
Ability to break down complex systems into manageable components
Drive for observability to understand performance and be able to diagnose problems
Effective communication skills and willingness to pair on problems, brainstorm in public, and enthusiastically engage with your teammates in group problem solving
Experience writing design docs and getting consensus on technical decisions from a broader group
Familiarity with database internals, experience with change management especially database migrations
History of success in a remote work environment
Benefits
Annual bonus
Stock
Competitive pay
Generous learning and growth opportunities
Excellent benefits
Company
GitHub
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.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$350MKey Investors
Sequoia CapitalAndreessen Horowitz
2018-06-03Acquired
2015-07-29Series B· $250M
2015-06-19Secondary Market
Leadership Team
PJ Hyett
Co-Founder
Kyle Daigle
Chief Operating Officer
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