21 hours ago
Base Salary
$124k - $329k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and advocate for the health, quality, reliability, and security of production systems, including participating in on-call and first-responder rotations.
- Collect, classify, and analyze system and product metrics to identify issues and guide engineering decisions.
- Drive automation across production and deployment workflows and improve developer tooling, development velocity, and team performance.
- Design, prototype, implement, test, ship, and support high-performance, globally scalable code search technology.
- Design and implement APIs and automated continuous integration and delivery pipelines.
- Ensure security, privacy, safety, accessibility, auditability, and compliance through appropriate processes and evidence.
- Write architecture briefs and proposals, conduct code experiments, and build prototypes for planetary-scale systems.
- Collaborate with engineering, design, project management, and partner teams across the Copilot Agents organization.
Requirements
- 6+ years of software engineering or related technical experience with production software delivery and coding experience, or qualifying combinations of education and experience.
- An associate degree may substitute with 5+ years of relevant experience; a bachelor’s degree with 4+ years; a master’s degree with 2+ years; a doctorate or equivalent experience may also qualify.
- Production programming experience in one or more of C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python.
- Preferred experience with production monitoring and observability across networking, applications, caching, queuing, load balancing, storage, and distributed services.
- Preferred 2+ years of experience with systems programming, search index internals, and information retrieval.
- Preferred experience solving problems with large-scale distributed systems and a strong understanding of testing and high-quality software practices.
Benefits
- Remote-first work arrangement from the United States.
- Benefits and additional rewards may include annual bonus and stock, depending on role eligibility and individual impact.
- Competitive pay and learning and growth opportunities.
- Base salary range of USD $124,000.00–$329,200.00 per year.
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.