Staff Systems 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 Systems Engineer to join our Database Infrastructure team.  We're  a team that focuses on ensuring the reliability and scalability of the database fleet that powers GitHub. The Database platform is home to hundreds of terabytes of data, serving over 20 million queries per second on average across our fleet.

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