7 hours ago
Base Salary
$145k - $384k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and ship high-quality code for efficient and streamlined Git operations.
- Improve resource efficiency across CPU, memory, network, and disk in complex operations.
- Scale Git to support increasingly large repositories.
- Contribute to open-source projects and maintain changes in coordination with upstream projects.
- Collaborate with partner engineering, product, design, and other teams on cross-functional initiatives.
- Translate requirements from other teams into detailed action plans and document technical ideas clearly.
- Communicate with customers about Git-related limitations.
- Participate in an on-call rotation.
Requirements
- At least 9 years of software engineering or related technical experience, or an applicable degree-and-experience combination ranging from an associate degree with 8+ years to a doctorate with 3+ years.
- Proven experience maintaining and delivering production software in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python.
- Equivalent experience may substitute for the stated education and experience pathways.
- Deep understanding of Git internals.
- Ability to code in C or Rust, or willingness to learn C.
- Experience working with open-source teams or projects.
- Experience maintaining a custom fork of an open-source product while sending changes upstream.
- Experience collaborating with product management, design, and engineering teams on cross-functional projects.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services.
Benefits
- Remote work within the United States and a remote-first work environment.
- Competitive base pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits.
- Certain roles may be eligible for annual bonuses, stock, and sales incentives depending on role and plan terms.
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.