2 months ago
Base Salary
$124k - $329k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and ship scalable technical solutions across multiple GitHub services.
- Lead reliability improvements, monitoring, operational tooling, incident investigation, and carefully staged production changes.
- Own system health and quality, including participation in on-call and first-responder rotations.
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing, and code reviews.
- Write architecture briefs and proposals, run experiments, and build prototypes for planetary-scale systems.
- Design and implement APIs for integration between software components.
- Set up automated continuous integration and delivery pipelines using CI/CD tools.
- Write maintainable production code and collaborate with infrastructure, security, and product teams.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of software engineering or related technical experience with production software development, or the stated associate, bachelor's, master's, doctorate, or equivalent-experience alternatives.
- At least 1 year of technical leadership experience.
- At least 6 years of experience building, deploying, and maintaining distributed services at scale.
- At least 3 years of experience with general-purpose programming languages such as Go, Ruby, or Rust.
- Preferred: at least 6 years of experience with Redis, S3, or Azure Storage.
- Preferred: experience with infrastructure as code, configuration management, and tools such as Terraform, Puppet, and Ansible.
- Preferred: at least 3 years of experience with scripting languages such as Bash or Python.
Benefits
- Remote-first work arrangement; this position can be performed remotely from the United States.
- Competitive pay, benefits, annual bonus and stock eligibility for applicable roles, and learning and growth opportunities.
Categories
DevOpsSite Reliability
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.