Senior Cloud Foundations Engineer

GitHub, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 108,000 - 286,000; Full time

Job summary

GitHub is seeking a Software Engineer III to help design and operate the compute foundations powering our global infrastructure. You will work on VM provisioning, image pipelines, and Terraform-based automation, collaborating with security and engineering teams to improve reliability and security across Azure and data centers.

You will write and review high-quality code, participate in on-call rotations, and contribute to operational visibility, safety practices, and scalable platform

Qualifications

• 4+ years experience in Software Engineering or related discipline with production software experience across languages such as C, C++, C#, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python.
• Associate’s / Bachelor's / Master’s degree paths with required years of experience as listed.
• Experience in building and maintaining cloud-native workloads and large-scale applications.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to design and implementation of reliable, secure systems across compute foundations.
• Build automation to reduce toil and improve provisioning, configuration, and fleet maintenance safety.
• Maintain platform services across Azure and data centers; develop Terraform tooling.
• Write, review, and test high-quality, maintainable code with strong observability and security.
• Collaborate with security and engineering to modernize and harden infrastructure; participate in on-call rotation.
• Create clear documentation and runbooks; communicate effectively in a distributed team.

Skills

Software engineering

Multiple languages

CI/CD

Linux/OS

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Associate’s degree + 3+ years experience

Equivalent experience

Tools

Terraform

Azure

AWS

Google Cloud

Job description

GitHub is seeking a Software Engineer III to help design and operate the compute foundations powering our global infrastructure. You will work on VM provisioning, image pipelines, and Terraform-based automation, collaborating with security and engineering teams to improve reliability and security across Azure and data centers.

You will write and review high-quality code, participate in on-call rotations, and contribute to operational visibility, safety practices, and scalable platform