6 hours ago
Base Salary
$108k - $286k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement reliable, performant, and secure systems for VM runtime, provisioning, configuration management, and infrastructure-as-code.
- Build automation that reduces operational toil and makes provisioning, configuration changes, and fleet maintenance safer and more predictable.
- Maintain platform services across Azure and GitHub data centers, including VM lifecycle workflows, OS and container image pipelines, host inventory, and Terraform tooling.
- Write, review, and test maintainable code with attention to observability, security, and failure recovery.
- Collaborate with engineering and security teams on platform integration, troubleshooting, modernization, and compliance requirements.
- Participate in on-call rotations, respond to incidents, and implement improvements that strengthen reliability and recovery.
- Create documentation, runbooks, and design proposals while communicating effectively in a distributed, asynchronous environment.
Requirements
- 4+ years of software engineering, computer science, or related technical experience with production software development in languages including C, C++, C#, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python; equivalent experience is also accepted.
- Alternatively, an associate degree plus 3+ years of experience, a bachelor's degree plus 2+ years of related experience, or a master's degree in a related field.
- 2+ years building and supporting large, high-traffic applications at scale in platform or infrastructure domains.
- 2+ years building and supporting cloud-native workloads in Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.
- Preferred: 4+ years with Azure or another cloud provider, experience with planetary-scale engineering systems, experience on remote distributed teams, strong written and verbal communication, and expertise with cloud environments and CNCF concepts.
Benefits
- Remote-first work from the United States.
- Competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits.
- Certain roles may be eligible for annual bonuses, stock, and sales incentives in addition to base pay.
- The position is open for a minimum of 3 days and accepts applications on an ongoing basis until filled.
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.