Staff Software Engineer, Traffic Team

Github; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 140.000 - 200.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

GitHub is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Traffic Team. This remote UK role focuses on building and sustaining scalable, resilient traffic systems that power GitHub’s global edge and services.

You will collaborate across distributed teams, drive architecture, and mentor engineers while contributing to high-impact load-balancing work. Ideal candidates bring 9+ years in software engineering, strong Go and Ruby on Rails skills, and experience with large-scale, cloud-native platforms.

Qualifikationen

• 9+ years in Software Engineering with proven production coding experience in multiple languages (Go, Ruby, Python, etc).
• Associate’s Degree with 8+ years experience in Software Engineering.
• Bachelor’s Degree with 7+ years experience in Software Engineering.
• Master’s Degree with 5+ years experience in Software Engineering.
• Doctorate with 3+ years experience in Software Engineering.
• Or equivalent experience.

Aufgaben

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

Kenntnisse

Software engineering

Distributed systems

Go

Ruby

Cloud platforms

Load balancing

DDoS protection

Code reviews

On-call

Remote collaboration

Ausbildung

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Master's Degree in Computer Science

Doctorate in Computer Science

Associate's Degree in Computer Science

Equivalent experience

Tools

HAProxy

Golang

Load Balancer

Jobbeschreibung

About GitHub

GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development — powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 180 million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate, and more than 77,000 organisations have adopted GitHub Copilot.

Locations

In this role you can work from Remote, United Kingdom

Overview

GitHub is changing the way the world builds software,and we want you to help lead this effort.

TheTraffic Teamplays a critical role inGitHub'sscalability and resiliency.GitHub’s Traffic teamis responsible forevery packet into and out of GitHub’s edge and delivers a foundational load balancing platform forall ofits services.The team’sobjectiveis to ensure that GitHub continues tooperateindustry-leading services at global scale, and to ensure internal engineering teams have the tools and processes necessary to build on top of our platform with as little friction as possible.

As a StaffSoftware Engineer on theTrafficTeam, you will work closely with a distributed, diverse, and passionate team of engineers to improve andmaintainpart of the platform that millions of developers worldwide rely on in their software development cycle.

TheTrafficTeamis highly distributed,and you will thrive in an environment of remote work and asynchronous communication.You'reexpected to have strong written communication skills and be able to develop working relationships with coworkers in locations around the globe. As an engineer at GitHub,you'llalways be challenged to solve interesting and novel problems that haveareal impact on how the world builds software.

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

Qualifications

Required 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.
• 4+ years building and supporting large, high traffic applications at scale within platform/infrastructure domains
• 4+ years supporting and building cloud native workloads in Azure, AWS or Google Cloud
• 2+ years experience maintaining a Load Balancer with proven experience in abuse protection mechanisms for DDoS attacks, load shedding, etc.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience withHAProxy, or any otheropen-sourceLoad Balancer

• 2+ Years of Golang experience

• Experience building or maintaining planetary scale engineering systems

• Experience working with a remote, distributed team

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

GitHub Leadership Principles

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.

EEO Statement

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!