14 hours ago
Remote, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and ship improvements to webhook services and APIs.
- Build and maintain reliable, high-volume event-driven systems.
- Debug problems across service boundaries and improve tooling and observability.
- Partner with infrastructure teams to improve platform performance and resolve dependencies.
- Support GitHub teams building webhook integrations.
- Provide technical leadership through mentoring, pairing, and code reviews.
- Maintain service health and participate in on-call and first responder rotations.
- Write architecture proposals and evaluate scaling approaches through experiments and prototypes.
- Maintain code quality and use delivery pipelines to ship changes safely.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of relevant production software engineering experience, or an associate degree plus 5 years, bachelor’s degree plus 4 years, master’s degree plus 2 years, a doctorate, or equivalent experience.
- At least 2 years maintaining highly available, high-volume platforms.
- At least 2 years building and maintaining event-driven systems.
- At least 2 years with scripting languages such as Bash or Python.
- At least 2 years with general-purpose programming languages such as Go or Ruby.
- At least 3 years with cloud environments and/or CNCF concepts.
- Experience with queuing or streaming systems such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
- Experience with relational or distributed databases.
- Experience working on distributed teams with strong written and verbal communication skills.
Benefits
- Remote work from Canada in a remote-first environment.
- Competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits.
- GitHub supports an inclusive workplace and provides interview accommodations for candidates with disabilities.
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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.