Principal Production Engineer, Database Infrastructure

About Git Hub

Git Hub 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 Git Hub to collaborate, and more than 77,000 organisations have adopted Git Hub Copilot.

In this role you can work from Remote, United States

Git Hub is looking for a Principal Production Engineer to help scale our data platform to millions of developers. We are software engineers who specialize in reliability, working with technical partner s, leading design reviews, writ ing SDKs and tooling to build against, and shap ing how our data platform is used to prevent scaling problems before they reach production.

• Partner with product and feature teams by leading design reviews and shaping how they model, access, and scale their data so the applications they build are performant, available, and operable at Git Hub's scale
• Design and ship SDKs, client libraries, and the tooling applications are built on
• Set reliability strategy for Git Hub's database platforms across multiple systems, defining SLOs and operational standards
• Write technical documentation and advocate for the health and quality of the systems the team builds
• Participate in an on-call rotation and respond to incidents as needed
• Develop and design plans for disaster recovery, load shedding, and regional failover

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

• 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.
• 5+ years experience operating large-scale distributed systems in production, including participation in an on-call rotation.

• 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.
• A track record of partnering with product and feature teams and materially changing the reliability and scalability of what they ship.
• Ability to influence engineering decisions and proactively engage in system design conversations.
• Experience…