15 hours ago
Remote, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead technical decision-making and architecture for the Traffic Team.
- Design and implement scalable, reliable, and performant solutions for rate limiting, routing, and related traffic-management problems.
- Maintain and improve the GitHub Load Balancer and other traffic-management systems.
- Write, review, and maintain production code primarily in Go and Ruby/Rails.
- Mentor engineers in technical and architectural decision-making.
- Participate in the on-call rotation and team meetings.
Requirements
- At least 9 years of relevant software engineering or technical-discipline experience, 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.
- At least 4 years building and supporting large, high-traffic applications at scale in platform or infrastructure domains.
- At least 4 years supporting and building cloud-native workloads in Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.
- At least 2 years maintaining a load balancer, including experience with abuse protection mechanisms for DDoS attacks and load shedding.
- Proven experience maintaining and delivering production software in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python.
- Preferred experience with HAProxy or another open-source load balancer.
- Preferred two or more years of Golang experience.
- Preferred experience building or maintaining planetary-scale engineering systems and working with remote, distributed teams.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Benefits
- Remote work is available from the United Kingdom, with a remote-first and asynchronous work environment.
- GitHub offers competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits.
- GitHub supports an inclusive workplace and provides interview accommodations for candidates with disabilities.
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.