Staff Production Engineer, Database Infrastructure

About GitHub GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development — powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 180 million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate, and more than 77,000 organisations have adopted GitHub Copilot. Locations In this role you can work from Remote, United States Overview GitHub is looking for a Staff Production Engineer to help scale our data platform to millions of developers. We are software engineers who specialize in reliability, working with technical partners, contributing to design reviews, writing SDKs and tooling to build against, and shaping how our data platform is used to prevent scaling problems before they reach production.

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     The team is highly distributed across geographies and time zones, and you will thrive in an environment of remote work and asynchronous communication.

Required 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 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 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  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 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 3+  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.   3+  years experience   operating  large-scale distributed systems in production, including participation in an on-call rotation.

Excitement about building,  operating , and  maintaining  resilient, scalable systems that  impact  a global community of users with the ability to break