2 months ago
Base Salary
$140k - $372k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture, design, implementation, and evolution of pull request systems at GitHub scale.
- Define and execute the Pull Request Platform technical roadmap around reliability, scalability, and service extraction.
- Solve technical challenges involving Git operations, databases, search and indexing, APIs, and asynchronous workflows.
- Design, develop, test, and ship maintainable solutions across multiple GitHub services.
- Own production-system health through on-call participation, incident response, and post-incident improvements.
- Set standards for operational safety, testing, observability, deployment, and production rollouts.
- Write architecture briefs and technical proposals, conduct experiments, and communicate tradeoffs and operational risks.
- Partner across engineering teams on scalable interfaces, service extraction, platform hardening, automation, tooling, and standardization.
- Provide technical leadership through mentorship, pairing, code reviews, design reviews, and engineering guidance.
Requirements
- At least 9 years of relevant software engineering or related technical experience with production software coding, or qualifying education and experience alternatives: an associate degree plus 8 years, bachelor’s degree plus 7 years, master’s degree plus 5 years, doctorate plus 3 years, or equivalent experience.
- Production software coding experience in one or more of C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python.
- Preferred: at least 1 year of software development experience in Ruby and/or Go.
- Preferred: experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems or platform infrastructure with demanding reliability and performance requirements.
- Preferred: experience improving scalability, observability, resilience, and performance of high-traffic production systems.
- Preferred: experience with monolith decomposition, service extraction, or large-scale architecture migrations.
Benefits
- Remote-first work arrangement from the United States.
- Competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and benefits supporting employees wherever they work.
- Certain roles are eligible for benefits, annual bonuses, stock, and potentially sales incentives according to role and plan terms.
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.