15 hours ago
Base Salary
$140k - $372k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and ship high-quality technical solutions that scale across multiple GitHub services.
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews while supporting maintainable and extensible engineering practices.
- Own system health and quality, including participating in first-responder on-call rotations and live incident response.
- Design and implement APIs that integrate software components.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders on technical solutions, including design and cost considerations.
- Lead testing strategies, define success metrics, and incorporate customer feedback for continuous improvement.
- Design isolation mechanisms for untrusted code execution and champion security across GitHub Actions.
- Improve reliability, incident response, monitoring, alerting, and runbooks across Actions services.
- Drive the technical roadmap in alignment with product goals and prioritize engineering efforts strategically.
Requirements
- At least 9 years of relevant experience with a qualifying technical discipline and production software development, or 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 languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python.
- Experience with large-scale system architecture and design, particularly in cloud-based environments.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems and microservices.
- Preferred: technical leadership experience.
- Preferred: experience with general-purpose programming languages such as Go or Ruby.
- Preferred: experience with scripting languages such as Bash or Python.
- Preferred: experience building or operating CI/CD systems at scale.
Benefits
- Remote work from the United States; GitHub is remote-first.
- GitHub offers competitive pay, learning and growth opportunities, and benefits supporting employees wherever they work.
- Certain roles may include benefits and additional rewards such as annual bonuses and stock.
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.