Software Engineer II

GitHub, Inc.

3d • Remote

About The Position

As the global home for all developers, GitHub is the complete AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 100 million people, including developers from 90 of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to build amazing things together across 330+ million repositories. With all the collaborative features of GitHub, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write faster, better code.
Role Overview
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, and are 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

• 2+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python.
• OR Associate’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) experience
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field.
• OR equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

• Professional experience coding in React.js, Ruby, Go, and/or Rails.
• Experience utilizing AI or agentic workflows for implementation and enhancing impact.
• Experience with Git and GitHub.
• Experience working cross functionally to deliver delightful customer experiences.
• Passionate about healthy team culture and collaboration.
• Experience working with a remote, distributed team.

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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees