✦ Luna Orbit — Database Administration

Staff Software Engineer, Database Infrastructure

at GitHub

📍 Remote, US Remote 💰 $140K – $372K USD / year Posted April 15, 2026
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Position Details

Salary $140K – $372K USD / year
Type Full-Time
Experience lead
Exp. Years 9+ years
Education Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years experience; OR Master's; OR Associate's AND 5+ years.
Category Database Administration

About this role

Staff Software Engineer role focused on GitHub’s Database Infrastructure, responsible for reliability and scalability of databases at large scale. The position includes MySQL expertise, building self-service tooling, and planning disaster recovery and failovers while participating in on-call rotations.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design and build core database infrastructure components to scale the database solution
  • Serve as a subject matter expert on MySQL and database administration
  • Design, develop, and maintain tooling for operating database systems and self-service tooling
  • Develop and design plans for disaster recovery and systems failovers
  • Participate in an on-call rotation and respond to incidents as needed

Technical Overview

You will design and build parts of GitHub’s database infrastructure, acting as a subject matter expert on MySQL and database administration. The work includes developing operational tooling, self-service tooling for developers, writing technical documentation, and driving disaster recovery and failover plans, with active incident response through an on-call rotation.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a Staff Software Engineer with 9+ years of software engineering experience, including maintaining and delivering production software. They are a subject matter expert in MySQL and database administration, able to design and operate scalable, reliable database infrastructure, build self-service tooling, and lead disaster recovery and failover planning while participating in on-call incident response.

Must-Have Skills

9+ years experience in Software EngineeringComputer Scienceor related technical disciplineproven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages includingbut not limited toCC++C#JavaJavaScriptGoRubyRustor PythonBe a subject matter expert on MySQL and database administrationDesign and develop and maintain tooling for operating database systems and self-service toolingDevelop and design plans for disaster recovery and systems failoversParticipate in an on-call rotation and respond to incidents as needed

Nice-to-Have Skills

Cultivate open source projects developed at GitHubWrite technical documentation on how to use internal tooling and best practices for leveraging MySQLSelf-service infrastructure to empower engineers

Required Skills

MySQLdatabase administrationreliabilityscalabilitytoolingdisaster recoverysystems failoverson-call rotationrespond to incidentstechnical documentationproduction softwareCC++C#JavaJavaScriptGoRubyRustPython

Hard Skills

MySQLdatabase administrationdatabase administration within GitHubdatabase reliabilitydatabase scalabilityinfrastructure toolingdisaster recoverysystems failoverson-call rotationincident responsetechnical documentationproduction softwareCC++C#JavaJavaScriptGoRubyRustPython

Soft Skills

subject matter expertiseadvocate for health and quality of systemsescalate risksremote work and asynchronous communication

Industry & Role

Industry SaaS
Job Function Scale and maintain GitHub’s MySQL-backed database infrastructure with high reliability and strong operational resilience.
Role Subtype SQL DBA
Tech Domains SQL / PostgreSQL, MySQL, DevOps & SRE, Cloud & Infrastructure, Linux

Keywords for Your Resume

Staff Software EngineerDatabase InfrastructureMySQLdatabase administrationreliabilityscalabilitytoolingdisaster recoverysystems failoverson-call rotationrespond to incidentstechnical documentationself-service infrastructureCC++C#JavaJavaScriptGoRubyRustPythonproduction softwareincident response

Deal Breakers

9+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline, 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, Subject matter expert on MySQL and database administration

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