Security Engineer III

GitHub, Inc.; Canada; Remote; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading software development platform is seeking a Security Engineer III to help secure their systems. The role involves modernizing security infrastructure, contributing to technical solutions, and supporting debugging efforts. Candidates should have 4+ years in software engineering and experience with programming languages such as Python, C++, and more. The company promotes a diverse, remote-first work culture and offers competitive benefits.

Benefits

Competitive pay

Generous learning and growth opportunities

Excellent benefits

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in a related technical discipline.
• Experience in maintaining and delivering production software.
• Experience with multiple programming languages.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to technical solutions and create proposals for architecture.
• Define success metrics for quality in solutions.
• Support debugging tools to verify assumptions proactively.

Skills

C

C++

C#

JavaScript

Go

Ruby

Rust

Python

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

HashiCorp Vault

Puppet

Chef

Ansible

Amazon Web Services

Microsoft Azure

Job description

Overview

GitHub is changing the way the world builds software and we want you to help secure GitHub. We’re looking for a Security Engineer III to help accelerate that journey as we innovate and modernize core security processes.

A global, remote-first team, Secure Access Engineering - Perimeter & Secrets enables and supports secrets management, secrets governance, and access to internal infrastructure across GitHub. In this position, you will be responsible for modernizing, maintaining, and operating the security infrastructure and processes while identifying areas for improvement internally and through partnerships with our Security and Engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Contributes to processes for the technical solutions of a product/feature within Secure Access Engineering’s area of responsibility and helps to create proposals for architecture by testing design hypotheses and helping to refine code plans, with technical leadership from others.
• Creates a clear and articulated plan for testing and assuring quality of solutions, and defines success metrics for quality.
• Contributes to the identification of dependencies during the design of a product area with little oversight.
• Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable. Writes and learns to create code that is extensible and maintainable.
• Supports efforts to apply debugging tools and examines logs, telemetry, and other methods to verify assumptions proactively before issues occur and reactively as issues occur for product features.
• Maintains operations of live service as issues arise on a rotational, on-call basis.
• Acts as a First Responder for their area of ownership and guides other engineers by developing and following playbooks, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
• Identifies areas of efforts to integrate instrumentation for gathering telemetry data on system behavior such as performance, reliability, availability, usage, and safety mechanisms.
• Builds knowledge, shares new ideas, and shares pinpoints of engineering tool gaps to improve software developer tools to support other programs, tools, and applications to create, debug, and maintain code for complex product features.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• 4+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, 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 3+ years experience
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 2+ years experience in Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
• OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
• OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building highly available and secure systems at scale.
• Experience with Kubernetes and Docker.
• Experience with configuration/orchestration management software such as Puppet, Chef, or Ansible.
• Experience with secrets management tools, such as HashiCorp Vault.
• Experience with infrastructure services such as LDAP, SSH, VPN, HTTP proxies.
• Experience with service mesh implementations, such as Tailscale.
• Experience with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or a similar cloud provider.

GitHub values

• Customer-obsessed
• Ship to learn
• Growth mindset
• Own the outcome
• Better together
• Diverse and inclusive

Manager fundamentals

• Model
• Coach
• Care

Leadership principles

• Create clarity
• Generate energy
• Deliver success

Who We Are

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.

Equal Employment Opportunity

GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don\'t discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there\'s any way we can make the interview process better for you; we\'re happy to accommodate!