Sr. Mgr, Software Engineering, Database Reliability

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The databases teams are responsible for managing, scaling and operating a fleet of data stores. We build tools and microservices to operate our databases and create self-service platforms for developers at GitHub.

We're looking for an experienced engineering manager to help lead a distributed team of Platform Engineers. This role is not about dictating or managing a team member’s work directly, but rather guiding and serving to ensure the happiness and productivity of the team.

As a leader and manager, you will directly influence engineering culture, mentor and grow other engineers, engage in long term architectural planning, and partner closely with key partners across the company to help deliver a highly available, resilient and scalable database platform.

The engineers are responsible for the scalability, maintainability and resiliency of our MySQL database and provide systems, tools and automation. For more about our work, read our blog posts on MySQL 8.0 upgrade and Automating MySQL schema migrations.

The team is highly distributed and the right candidate can thrive in an environment of asynchronous communication. We expect you to have strong written and verbal communication skills and be able to create working relationships with coworkers in locations around the globe.

Responsibilities:

• Scale our database and application across multiple regions and in the Cloud.

• Oversee and guide a distributed team, guiding the team’s vision, best practices, and priorities.

• Provide clarity and a shared understanding of decision making, direction, and progress for the team and the company.

• Meeting 1-1 with team members on a regular basis.

• Provide career development plans and guided performance feedback.

• Review code, design docs and lead small group discussions about technical problems

• Drive incident response and facilitate blameless postmortems

• Plan and execute complex technical projects, coordinating work with engineering teams across the stack.

Qualifications:

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• 6+ 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 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 Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ 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 2+ 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

  • OR equivalent experience

• 2+ years experience building, scaling and maintaining distributed, highly available systems
• 1+ years of direct and/or indirect people management or leadership experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong communication skills with experience in design and strategy documentation

• Passionate about high availability infrastructure and engineering best practices

• Experienced in distributed teams, MySQL/Vitess, and cloud platforms (Azure, AWS)

• Skilled in reliability engineering, on-call support, and production environment maintenance

• Expertise in designing large-scale cloud services and distributed systems

• Data-driven decision maker with strong analytical skills in risk management and prioritization

Compensation Range: The base salary range for this job is USD $112,800.00 - USD $299,300.00 /Yr. These pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States. An individual's base pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant. At GitHub certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role. GitHub Leadership Principles:

GitHub values

• Customer-obsessed
• Ship to learn
• Growth mindset
• Own the outcome
• Better together
• Diverse and inclusive

Manager fundamentals

• Model
• Coach
• Care

Leadership principles

• Create clarity
• Generate energy
• Deliver success

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