Staff Systems Engineer

Posted 3 days ago

virtual vocationsNew York (NY)

Computer Systems Engineers/ArchitectsComputer Systems Design Services

SENIORITY

Lead

About the role

To ensure the reliability and scalability of GitHub's database infrastructure, the full-time Staff Systems Engineer will design and build core components of the database platform, serve as a subject matter expert on database internals, and collaborate with engineering teams to support their database needs in a remote work environment. Key responsibilitiesDesign and build core components of GitHub's database platform across self-managed and cloud-managed infrastructure Operate and improve replication topology and failover automation, including backup and restore processes Contribute to capacity planning for the database fleet and participate in an on-call rotation to respond to incidentsRequired qualifications9+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline with proven experience in production software coding Experience with programming languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python Strong expertise with MySQL internals and database administration Experience with Microsoft Azure or equivalent experience on another major cloud provider Experience contributing to large-scale database infrastructure migrations

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