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Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and ship maintainable software solutions that scale across multiple GitHub services.
- Build deep familiarity with owned systems and document architectural designs, proposals, experiments, and prototypes.
- Lead by example, mentor engineers, and provide technical leadership through code reviews and quality standards.
- Design for high availability, performance, and GitHub-scale distributed-system workloads.
- Coordinate with engineering and product owners to prioritize and deliver cross-functional projects.
- Operate live services through a rotational on-call schedule and implement mitigations for complex production issues.
- Cultivate team ownership, empowerment, and belonging.
Requirements
- At least 9 years of relevant software engineering or related technical experience with production software development; equivalent experience is also accepted.
- Alternatively, an associate degree plus 8 years, bachelor’s degree plus 7 years, master’s degree plus 5 years, or doctorate plus 3 years of relevant experience is required.
- Proven experience maintaining and delivering production software in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python.
- Ability to meet GitHub, customer, and government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
- Preferred experience with Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services.
- Preferred understanding of production monitoring, observability, performance characteristics, concurrency, latency, throughput, contention, backpressure, resource saturation, and failure modes.
- Preferred experience with large-scale system architecture, cloud-based environments, distributed systems, and microservices.
- Preferred experience collaborating with product management, design, and engineering teams on cross-functional projects.
Benefits
- Remote-first work arrangement from the United Kingdom.
- Competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits.
- Inclusive workplace with accommodations available to improve the interview process.
About GitHub
GitHub builds a cloud platform for software development that hosts code repositories, collaboration, and automation, including GitHub Actions, Packages, and Copilot. It sells paid plans and enterprise subscriptions for organizations and developers, plus add-ons and a marketplace. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco, it is owned by Microsoft and is widely used by open-source communities and enterprises worldwide.