Staff Software Engineer, Database Infrastructure
GitHub · United States · Engineering
About this role
GitHub is hiring a staff-level Infrastructure Engineer in the software engineering function based in United States. The posting calls out experience with Python, JavaScript, Java, Rust.
- Role
- Infrastructure Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- staff
- Track
- Tech leadership
- Location
- United States
- Department
- Engineering
- Posted
- Apr 14, 2026
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Job description
from GitHub careersGitHub 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 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.
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
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