21 hours ago
Remote, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Own the health, quality, reliability, and operational support of team systems, including on-call and first-responder rotations.
- Collect, classify, and analyze system and product metrics to identify issues and guide engineering decisions.
- Automate production and deployment processes and improve development quality, velocity, and developer tooling.
- Ensure security, privacy, safety, accessibility, and compliance practices, including audit logs and system reports.
- Use service health indicators such as SLOs to prioritize work and collaborate on project, release, and work plans.
- Write architecture proposals, run experiments, build prototypes, and design systems for planetary scale.
- Design and implement APIs for integration between software components.
- Set up automated CI/CD pipelines and design, develop, test, ship, and support scalable technical solutions across GitHub services.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in software engineering, computer science, or a related technical discipline with production software coding experience; alternatives include an associate degree plus 5+ years, bachelor's degree plus 4+ years, master's degree plus 2+ years, a doctorate, or equivalent experience.
- Production coding experience in one or more of C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python.
- Preferred: experience with production system monitoring and observability across network, application, caching, queuing, load-balancing, storage, and distributed-services layers.
- Preferred: strong understanding of testing principles and high-quality software engineering practices.
- Preferred: 2+ years of experience in systems programming, search index internals, and information retrieval.
- Preferred: experience solving problems with large-scale distributed systems.
- Ability to work autonomously, learn quickly, communicate effectively, and set technical direction.
Benefits
- Remote work from the United Kingdom as part of GitHub's remote-first organization.
- Competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits.
- Inclusive workplace with reasonable interview-process accommodations available for applicants with disabilities.
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.