Principal 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 Principal Production Engineer t o help scale our   data platform to millions of developers.   We   are software engineers who specialize in reliability ,   working   with   technical partner s,   lead ing   design reviews, writ ing   SDKs   and tooling t o   build against, and shap ing   how   our data platform   is used to prevent   scaling problems   before they reach production.

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  buil t   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.

Required 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.

Excitement about building,   operating , and