
Principal Production Engineer, Database Infrastructure
Senior engineering role responsible for scaling and operating GitHub's database platforms: leading design reviews, defining SLOs and operational standards, building SDKs and tooling, participating in on-call rotations, and designing disaster recovery, load shedding, and regional failover. Requires extensive experience in production software engineering and operating large-scale distributed systems; experience with managed cloud data stores (e.g., Azure Cosmos DB, Azure SQL, DynamoDB, Aurora, Cloud Spanner) and languages such as Go, Python, Ruby, or Rust is highlighted.










