Staff Software Engineer, Traffic Platform & Load Balancer

GitHub; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

GitHub is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Traffic Team. You will lead technical decisions, design scalable load-balancing solutions, and mentor engineers across a global, remote-first engineering organization.

You will write and review code primarily in Go and Ruby on Rails, improve rate-limiting and routing, and maintain GitHub's Load Balancer and traffic systems to serve millions of developers worldwide.

Qualifications

• 9+ 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 8+ 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 or related field AND 7+ 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 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 Doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ 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 equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical decision making and architecture
• Design and implement scalable, reliable and performant solutions for complex problems like rate-limiting, routing, etc.
• Maintain and improve the GitHub Load Balancer, and other systems related to traffic management at GitHub
• Write, review, and maintain code primary in Go and Ruby & Rails
• Mentor other engineers in their technical and architectural decision making
• Participate in the on-call rotation, and team meetings

Job description

GitHub is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Traffic Team. You will lead technical decisions, design scalable load-balancing solutions, and mentor engineers across a global, remote-first engineering organization.

You will write and review code primarily in Go and Ruby on Rails, improve rate-limiting and routing, and maintain GitHub's Load Balancer and traffic systems to serve millions of developers worldwide.