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Base Salary
$140k - $372k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead technical decision-making and architecture for the Traffic Team.
- Design and implement scalable, reliable, and performant solutions for rate limiting, routing, and related complex traffic problems.
- Maintain and improve GitHub’s Load Balancer and other traffic-management systems.
- Write, review, and maintain production code primarily in Go and Ruby/Rails.
- Mentor engineers on technical and architectural decisions.
- Participate in on-call rotations and team meetings.
Requirements
- 9+ years of relevant software engineering or related technical experience, or qualifying alternatives including an associate degree with 8+ years, bachelor’s degree with 7+ years, master’s degree with 5+ years, doctorate with 3+ years, or equivalent experience.
- 4+ years building and supporting large, high-traffic applications at scale in platform or infrastructure domains.
- 4+ years supporting and building cloud-native workloads in Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.
- 2+ years maintaining a load balancer, including experience with DDoS abuse-protection mechanisms and load shedding.
- Preferred: experience with HAProxy or another open-source load balancer, 2+ years of Golang experience, planetary-scale engineering systems, and remote distributed teams.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Benefits
- Remote work within the United States and a remote-first work environment.
- Competitive benefits, learning and growth opportunities, annual bonus eligibility, and stock rewards where applicable.
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.