Senior Software Engineer

GitHub, Inc.

28d • 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.
As an engineer at GitHub, you will work with a distributed, diverse and passionate team delivering the services that millions of developers rely on to build their own software.
The Dependabot team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help us create a world-class offering in the Software Composition Analysis (SCA) space. The ideal candidate will have a background in large distributed systems, high-throughput cloud architectures, and an obsession with getting genuine accuracy in squishy domains. You’re an outside-the-box thinker with an interest in the cutting edge, but a strong pragmatic streak. People tend to follow your lead because you go to sensible places.

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 o OR 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 o OR Bachelor's Degree in 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 o OR 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. o OR Doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field. o OR equivalent experience.
• 6+ years of experience with relational databases (MySQL, PSQL, MSSQL, etc)
• 1+ year experience shipping production software on a big 3 cloud platform (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Nice To Haves

• At least one year of experience as a non-management team lead
• Previous experience working at a senior level on a cyber security product working at a relatively large scale (billions of writes/day)
• building ETL pipelines and succeeding with asynchronous architectures
• building with frontier AI models
• maintaining non-obscure open source projects

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.
• Mentor junior engineers
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level