Senior Security Engineer

GitHub, Inc.; Canada; Remote; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading software company is seeking a Sr. Security Engineer to manage and modernize security processes. This remote position from Canada involves leading technical discussions, collaborating with teams, and enhancing operational quality. Ideal candidates have extensive experience in software engineering with proficiency in various programming languages and tools. Competitive pay and excellent benefits are offered.

Benefits

Competitive pay

Generous learning and growth opportunities

Excellent benefits

Qualifications

• 6+ years experience in software engineering or related technical discipline.
• Experience with maintaining and delivering production software.
• Proven expertise in multiple programming languages.

Responsibilities

• Lead discussions for technical solutions within Secure Access Engineering.
• Collaborate with cross-organizational teams for technical solutions.
• Create and maintain operations for live service.

Skills

C

C++

C#

Java

JavaScript

Go

Ruby

Rust

Python

Data analytics

Education

Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

Associate’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

Doctorate in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Puppet

Chef

Ansible

HashiCorp Vault

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 Sr. Security Engineer 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.

Locations

Remote from Canada: Remote, Ontario; Remote, British Columbia; Remote, Alberta.

Responsibilities

• Leads discussions for the technical solutions of products/features within Secure Access Engineering’s area of responsibility and creates proposals for architecture by testing design hypotheses and helping to refine code plans.
• Collaborates with other cross-organizational teams in the development of wide-spanning technical solutions.
• Independently creates a clear and articulated plan for testing and assuring quality of solutions, and defines success metrics for quality.
• Leads by example within the team by producing extensible and maintainable code that is integrated with downstream dependencies.
• Mentors others in the immediate team to troubleshoot code and build product/service/feature expertise.
• 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, on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
• Drives efforts to collect, classify, and analyze data on a range of metrics which drives the refinement of products through data analytics, and makes informed decisions in engineering products through data integration.
• Leads the development of automation within production and deployment of complex product features.
• Improves development quality, development velocity, and team performance through modeling contributions to improvement of developer tooling. Builds, enhances, reuses, contributes to, and identifies new software developer tools to support other programs and applications to create, debug, and maintain code for products.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• 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.
• 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.
• OR 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.
• 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.
• OR Doctorate 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!