3 days ago
Base Salary
$124k - $329k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and ship scalable production software across GitHub services.
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing, and code reviews while coordinating downstream integrations.
- Own system health and quality, including participation in rotating first-responder on-call and live incident rotations.
- Design and implement APIs for integration between software components.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders on technical, design, and cost considerations.
- Lead testing strategies, define success metrics, and incorporate customer feedback.
- Design isolation mechanisms for untrusted code execution and support enterprise security requirements.
- Improve reliability, monitoring, alerting, runbooks, and incident response for Actions services.
- Support the technical roadmap and prioritize engineering work in alignment with product goals.
Requirements
- 6+ years of software engineering or related technical experience with production software delivery; alternatives include an associate degree plus 5+ years, bachelor's degree plus 4+ years, master's degree plus 2+ years, a doctorate, or equivalent experience.
- Production coding experience in one or more of C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python.
- Willingness and ability to participate in rotating on-call coverage for 1–2 weeks each quarter.
- 2+ years of technical leadership experience preferred.
- 3+ years using general-purpose programming languages such as Go or Ruby preferred.
- 3+ years using scripting languages such as Bash or Python preferred.
- Experience building or operating CI/CD systems at scale preferred.
Benefits
- Remote-first work arrangement from the United States.
- Competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits.
- Certain roles may be eligible for annual bonuses, stock, and other rewards.
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.