10 days ago
Base Salary
$140k - $372k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and ship scalable production software across multiple GitHub services.
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing, code reviews, and guidance on extensible and maintainable systems.
- Own system health and quality, including participation in rotating first-responder on-call coverage and live incident response.
- Design and implement APIs for integration between software components.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders on technical solutions, designs, costs, and downstream dependencies.
- Lead testing strategies, define success metrics, and incorporate customer feedback into continuous improvement.
- Design isolation mechanisms for untrusted code execution and champion security across GitHub Actions.
- Improve reliability, monitoring, alerting, runbooks, and incident response for Actions services.
- Drive technical roadmaps aligned with product goals and prioritize engineering investments.
Requirements
- At least 9 years of relevant software engineering or related technical experience with production software delivery, or an applicable associate degree and 8+ years, bachelor's degree and 7+ years, master's degree and 5+ years, doctorate and 3+ years, or equivalent experience.
- Experience coding in one or more general-purpose languages such as Go, Ruby, Rust, Python, JavaScript, C, C++, C#, or Java.
- Willingness and ability to participate in rotating on-call coverage for 1–2 weeks each quarter.
- Preferred: 2+ years of technical leadership experience.
- Preferred: 3+ years using general-purpose programming languages such as Go or Ruby.
- Preferred: 3+ years using scripting languages such as Bash or Python.
- Preferred: experience building or operating CI/CD systems at scale.
Benefits
- Remote work from the United States in a remote-first organization.
- Certain roles are eligible for annual bonuses, stock, benefits, and additional rewards.
- Competitive pay and generous learning and growth opportunities.
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.