7 hours ago
Base Salary
$128k - $339k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate Kubernetes-based platform systems supporting GitHub production services.
- Improve reliability, scalability, operability, capacity efficiency, and lifecycle management across the Kubernetes and Hubbernetes fleet.
- Drive cross-team technical work involving Azure Kubernetes Service migration, fleet management, control-plane reliability, and capacity management.
- Partner with service owners, infrastructure teams, and engineering leaders on migration paths, operational standards, and platform improvements.
- Debug and resolve production issues involving Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, Linux, containers, networking, observability, and distributed systems.
- Build automation and guardrails for workload quality, cluster operations, capacity management, and incident response.
- Mentor engineers and contribute through design reviews, code reviews, technical direction, and operational judgment.
- Write, review, test, and maintain reliable platform software and automation.
- Participate in on-call and incident response and drive follow-up work to prevent recurring issues.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of relevant software engineering or technical-discipline experience with production software development, or an applicable associate, bachelor's, master's, or doctorate degree with the stated experience alternative.
- At least 2 years of experience with large-scale Kubernetes fleet operations, cluster lifecycle management, capacity management, or workload migration.
- Production coding experience in one or more of C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python.
- Experience with Azure Kubernetes Service or Kubernetes on Azure is preferred.
- Experience with platform engineering, developer platforms, internal infrastructure products, or infrastructure-as-a-service systems is preferred.
- Experience with Kubernetes controllers, operators, CRDs, admission control, scheduling, autoscaling, service mesh, or multi-cluster networking is preferred.
- Experience improving reliability through SLOs, observability, incident response, automation, and operational readiness is preferred.
- Experience driving senior-level technical projects with high ambiguity and cross-team impact is preferred.
- Strong written communication and software engineering fundamentals are expected.
Benefits
- Remote-first work from anywhere in the United States.
- Competitive base pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits.
- Certain roles may include annual bonuses, stock, and sales incentives where applicable.
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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.