Senior Software Engineer

GitHub, Inc.

7h•Remote

About The Position

GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development — powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 180 million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate, and more than 77,000 organisations have adopted GitHub Copilot. GitHub is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join its Developer Experience (DX) org as part of the feature management team. This role focuses on building and maintaining services that empower GitHub engineers to safely ship and test their features at scale. You will work on backend services and APIs that support these systems as well as a mixture of user-facing tooling to allow other engineers to interact with them. The ideal candidate has experience designing, building, and operating scalable, highly reliable, and performant systems. You enjoy solving complex problems optimizing scale, performance, reliability, and costs and take pride in improving the user experience of your fellow engineers. As a Senior Software Engineer within the DX org, you will collaborate with a distributed, diverse, and passionate group of engineers and product managers across GitHub and partner teams. Your work will directly impact the velocity by which other engineering teams in the company can ship their features to our customers. You will contribute through hands-on implementation, thoughtful design decisions, and strong collaboration within your team. You will help uphold best practices for system performance and reliability, contribute to technical designs, and identify opportunities to improve the resilience and scalability of the feature management platform. We value developer empathy, transparency, and inclusive collaboration, and we believe curiosity and impact drive great engineering at GitHub. GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with 150 million developers and counting. We’re also home to the biggest open-source community on earth (and 99% of the world’s software has open-source code in its DNA). Many of the apps and programs you use every day are built on GitHub. Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!). At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We’re remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are—because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms. Join us, and let’s change the world, together.

Requirements

6+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
Associate’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 2+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python.
Doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

Minimum 2 years experience in one or more scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python, or a similar language)
Minimum 2 years experience using general purpose programming languages (e.g., Go, Ruby, or a similar language).
Minimum 3 years experience with cloud environments and/or Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF) concepts.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, test and ship high-quality technical solutions that scale across multiple GitHub services.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement innovative solutions.
Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews to encourage the growth of others.
Own and advocate for the health and quality of the systems that the team builds, including participating in on-call and first responder rotations
Write architecture briefs and proposals, carry out code experiments, and build prototypes to learn how we can achieve planetary scale with our systems.
Design and implement APIs to facilitate seamless integration between software components.
Utilize CI/CD tools to set up automated pipelines for continuous integration and delivery.
Become intimately familiar with the systems you build and take pride in writing maintainable code.