14 hours ago
Base Salary
$124k - $329k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and ship improvements to webhook services and APIs.
- Build and maintain reliable, high-volume event-driven systems.
- Debug service-boundary problems and improve tooling and observability.
- Partner with infrastructure teams to improve performance and resolve dependencies.
- Support internal teams building webhook integrations.
- Provide technical leadership through mentoring, pairing, and code reviews.
- Maintain service health and participate in on-call and first-responder rotations.
- Write architecture proposals and evaluate scaling approaches with experiments and prototypes.
- Use CI/CD pipelines to deliver maintainable code safely.
Requirements
- 6+ years of software engineering or related technical experience with production software delivery, or qualifying associate, bachelor’s, master’s, doctorate, or equivalent experience alternatives.
- At least 2 years maintaining highly available, high-volume platforms.
- At least 2 years building and maintaining event-driven systems.
- Preferred: at least 2 years with scripting languages such as Bash or Python.
- Preferred: at least 2 years with general-purpose languages such as Go or Ruby.
- Preferred: at least 3 years with cloud environments and/or Cloud Native Computing Foundation concepts.
- Preferred experience with Kafka or RabbitMQ, relational or distributed databases, and distributed-team collaboration.
Benefits
- Remote-first work arrangement; this role is remote within the United States.
- Competitive pay, benefits, annual bonus eligibility, stock, and learning and growth opportunities.
- Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled, with the posting open for at least 3 days.
Tech Stack
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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.