Remote Senior Software Engineer, Ecosystem Events

GitHub; United States; Remote; USD 124,000 - 329,000; Full time

Job summary

GitHub is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Ecosystem Events team in the United States. You will design, implement, and operate the webhooks platform powering third-party integrations and GitHub products.

You will work with a distributed team of engineers, focusing on scaling, reliability, and observability of webhook services written in Go and Ruby, with a strong emphasis on asynchronous collaboration and on-call readiness.

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.
• 2+ years experience maintaining highly available, high-volume platforms.
• 2+ years experience building and maintaining event-driven systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and ship improvements to GitHub’s webhook services and APIs.
• Build and maintain event-driven systems that handle high volumes of traffic reliably.
• Debug problems across service boundaries and improve the tooling and observability needed to investigate them.
• Work with infrastructure partners to improve platform performance and resolve dependencies.
• Support teams across GitHub as they build webhook integrations.
• Provide technical leadership and help other engineers grow through mentoring, pairing, and code reviews.
• Maintain service health and respond to production problems through on-call and first responder rotations.
• Write architecture proposals and use experiments and prototypes to evaluate approaches to scaling our systems.
• Write maintainable code, test it, and use CI/CD pipelines to deliver changes safely.

Job description

GitHub is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Ecosystem Events team in the United States. You will design, implement, and operate the webhooks platform powering third-party integrations and GitHub products.

You will work with a distributed team of engineers, focusing on scaling, reliability, and observability of webhook services written in Go and Ruby, with a strong emphasis on asynchronous collaboration and on-call readiness.