12 days ago
Base Salary
$140k - $372k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and ship scalable software solutions across multiple GitHub services.
- Document architecture, run experiments, build prototypes, and validate technical approaches.
- Provide technical leadership through code reviews, architectural work, and design for high availability and GitHub-scale performance.
- Mentor engineers and promote extensible, maintainable code across products and downstream dependencies.
- Coordinate with engineering and product owners to prioritize and deliver cross-functional projects.
- Operate live services through rotational on-call support and implement mitigations for complex performance or functionality issues.
Requirements
- At least 9 years of relevant software engineering or related technical experience with production software coding, or qualifying combinations of education and experience ranging from an associate degree with 8+ years to a doctorate with 3+ years.
- Production software development experience in one or more of C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python.
- Equivalent experience may substitute for the listed education and experience pathways.
- Preferred experience includes Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services, production monitoring and observability, large-scale cloud architecture, distributed systems, microservices, and cross-functional collaboration with product management, design, and engineering teams.
Benefits
- Remote-first work arrangement from the United States.
- Competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and benefits supporting employees wherever they work.
- Certain roles may include benefits, annual bonuses, stock, and sales incentives depending on role and plan terms.
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.