Senior Software Engineer

GitHub, Inc.•UNAVAILABLE, UNAVAILABLE

16d•Remote

About The Position

The GitHub Security Products team is on a mission to secure the world’s software. We’re building tools that make it easy to find, fix, and prevent code vulnerabilities and credential leaks, deploying them to millions of developers. Every day, developers unintentionally commit secrets into their repositories. Without intervention, this can cause damaging privacy and monetary losses. We’re solving that. As a software engineer at GitHub, you will enhance the collaboration experience at GitHub by working closely with a community of engineers and designers with a distributed, diverse, and passionate team delivering the services that millions of developers depend on. In this role, you will design, prototype, implement, ship, and support highly performant and inspiring user experiences with your team. We are looking for creative problem solvers and diverse thinkers, people who care about culture as well as customers and features. We believe that how we do things is as important as what we do. Big vision, a common purpose, passion for quality, curiosity, dedication, and investment in fun and collaboration are what lead to great results. Great products reflect the teams that build them.

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

Write, review, and maintain clean, high-quality code primarily in Go, Ruby, JavaScript, or C#, delivering scalable technical solutions across multiple GitHub services.
Collaborate with engineering teammates, product management, and design to define, prioritize, and build innovative new features that align with business objectives.
Provide technical leadership, direction, and thorough code reviews, while fostering team growth through pairing opportunities, delegation, and continuous mentorship.
Write comprehensive architecture briefs and proposals, execute code experiments, and develop prototypes to ensure systems can successfully scale to a planetary level.
Design and implement robust APIs for seamless component integration, and leverage CI/CD tools to establish automated pipelines for continuous delivery.
Own, advocate for, and document the long-term health and quality of the systems you build, including participating in on-call and first responder rotations to triage and respond to production incidents.
Work with support teams to investigate, triage, and debug complex technical support requests.