[Remote] Principal Software Engineer, Database Infrastructure

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Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development, and they are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join their Database Infrastructure team. The role focuses on ensuring the reliability and scalability of GitHub's databases, creating self-service infrastructure, and empowering engineers across the organization.


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

Skills

  • 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
  • 3+ years experience in using monitoring tooling to diagnose performance or availability issues
  • 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

  • Certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock
  • Certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role
  • Generous learning and growth opportunities
  • Excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are
  • Remote-first
  • Competitive pay

Company Overview

  • 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. It was founded in 2008, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is https://github.com.

    • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • GitHub has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 4 in 2026, 26 in 2025, 17 in 2024, 14 in 2023, 20 in 2022, 20 in 2021, 10 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.

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