1 day ago
Base Salary
$128k - $339k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and iteratively ship services, integrations, and workflows for incident preparation, coordination, and learning.
- Build AI skills, agents, and AI-assisted workflows that connect production and observability tools to support investigation, mitigation, and routine-task automation.
- Drive architectural decisions and deliver secure, resilient, maintainable, and high-quality systems through proposals, prototypes, and code review.
- Communicate technical direction, progress, tradeoffs, and risks, while mentoring and collaborating with other engineers.
- Partner with responders, service teams, and stakeholders to identify and prioritize incident-response challenges.
- Improve communication and involvement of technical, customer-facing, and business partners during incidents.
- Own system health, participate in an on-call rotation, and follow through on reliability improvements.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of software engineering, computer science, or related technical experience delivering and maintaining production software, or an associate degree plus 5 years of experience, or a bachelor’s degree plus 4 years, or a master’s degree plus 2 years, or a doctorate in a relevant field, or equivalent experience.
- Production software experience with one or more of C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python.
- Preferred: at least 3 years working remotely as part of a distributed software engineering team.
- Preferred: experience integrating AI capabilities, especially agents, skills, or MCP servers, into production workflows.
- Preferred: experience building and operating production infrastructure on a major cloud platform, with exposure to infrastructure as code and container orchestration tooling.
- Preferred: ownership, clear communication, curiosity, growth mindset, and effectiveness in ambiguous environments.
Benefits
- Remote-first role available remotely within the United States.
- GitHub offers benefits, learning and growth opportunities, and additional rewards such as annual bonuses and stock for eligible roles.
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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.