Staff Software Engineer, Database Infrastructure

MySQL
UNITED STATES
October 20, 2026
Full Time
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Job Description

Company: GitHub
Location: United States
Workplace Type: Remote
Employment Type: Full-time
Pay / Compensation: USD $140,400.00 – USD $372,300.00 /Yr

About the Role

GitHub is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our Database Infrastructure team. We’re a team that focuses on ensuring the reliability and scalability of the databases that power GitHub. The Database platform is home to hundreds of terabytes of unique data, serving over 20 million queries per second on average across our fleet. We create self-service infrastructure to empower engineers across the organization.

What You’ll Do / Key Responsibilities

  • Core Infrastructure Design: Design and build a core part of GitHub’s infrastructure and work to scale our database solution.
  • MySQL Subject Matter Expertise: Act as a subject matter expert on MySQL and database administration within GitHub.
  • Open Source Contribution: Cultivate open source projects developed at GitHub and build things you are proud to share.
  • Tooling & Automation: Design, develop and maintain tooling for operating database systems and self-service tooling for GitHub developers.
  • Documentation & Best Practices: Write technical documentation on how to use internal tooling and best practices for leveraging MySQL.
  • Risk Management & Health: Escalate risks and advocate for the health and quality of the systems that the team builds.
  • Incident Response: Participate in an on-call rotation and respond to incidents as needed.
  • Disaster Recovery: Develop and design plans for disaster recovery and systems failovers.

Requirements & Qualifications

  • Software Engineering Experience: 7+ years (with Bachelor’s Degree) or 5+ years (with Master’s Degree) or 3+ years (with Doctorate) or 9+ years (equivalent 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.
  • Monitoring & Diagnostics: 3+ years experience in using monitoring tooling to diagnose performance or availability issues.

Preferred / Bonus Qualifications (if applicable)

  • Excitement about building, operating, and maintaining resilient, scalable systems that impact a global community of users with the 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 and experience with change management (especially database migrations).

Benefits & Perks (if applicable)

  • Remote-first work environment with asynchronous communication.
  • Competitive pay, annual bonus, and stock rewards.
  • Generous learning and growth opportunities.
  • Excellent benefits to support you and your wellbeing.

GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don’t discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences.

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