3 days ago
Base Salary
$124k - $329k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and ship scalable technical solutions across multiple GitHub services.
- Build vulnerability management systems that collect security findings, assign ownership, and track remediation through risk scoring, SLAs, and exceptions.
- Design and roll out authenticated package and container proxies and other software supply chain controls across GitHub Actions, Docker builds, and Dependabot.
- Build and evolve production services that meet requirements such as FedRAMP compliance without breaking dependent APIs.
- Collaborate with service owners, platform engineering, cloud security, and compliance teams.
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews.
- Own system health and quality, including participation in on-call and first-responder rotations.
- Write architecture briefs and proposals, conduct code experiments, and build prototypes for large-scale systems.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of experience in software engineering, computer science, or a related technical discipline with production software delivery experience; equivalent education and experience pathways are accepted.
- Alternatively, an associate degree plus 5+ years, bachelor’s degree plus 4+ years, master’s degree plus 2+ years, or a doctorate in a relevant technical field.
- Proven experience maintaining and delivering production software using languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python.
- Preferred: 2+ years using general-purpose and scripting languages such as Go or Python.
- Preferred: 3+ years of experience with cloud environments and/or Cloud Native Computing Foundation concepts.
Benefits
- Remote work is available from the United States, and GitHub describes itself as remote-first.
- The role is open for a minimum of 3 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until filled.
- Eligible roles may receive benefits, annual bonuses, stock, learning and growth opportunities, and other rewards; some roles may also offer sales incentives.
- GitHub offers accommodations during the interview process 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.