Senior Cloud Foundations Engineer (Remote, Azure/Terraform)

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

Job summary

GitHub is seeking a Software Engineer III to join the Cloud Foundations team, focusing on the infrastructure that powers GitHub’s compute platform across Azure and data centers. You will help build VM provisioning, image pipelines, and configuration management with Terraform-based automation.

You will collaborate with a distributed team, write high-quality code, and contribute to reliability, security, and scalable infrastructure practices.

Qualifications

• 4+ years experience in Software Engineering or related field with production software experience.
• Proficient in languages such as C, C++, C#, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python.
• Alternative qualification paths include degrees with 2–3+ years experience.
• Experience building and supporting large, high-traffic applications at scale.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to design and implementation of reliable, secure systems across compute foundations.
• Build automation to reduce toil and improve provisioning and fleet maintenance.
• Maintain platform services across Azure and data centers, including VM workflows and image pipelines.
• Write, review, and test high-quality code with emphasis on maintainability and security.
• Collaborate with security teams to integrate platform capabilities and modernize infrastructure.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response, driving follow-up improvements.
• Create documentation, runbooks, and design proposals for distributed teams.

Skills

Software Engineering

Programming languages

Large-scale systems

Cloud workloads

Education

Bachelor's Degree in CS

Master's Degree in CS

Associate's Degree in CS

Tools

Terraform

Job description

GitHub is seeking a Software Engineer III to join the Cloud Foundations team, focusing on the infrastructure that powers GitHub’s compute platform across Azure and data centers. You will help build VM provisioning, image pipelines, and configuration management with Terraform-based automation.

You will collaborate with a distributed team, write high-quality code, and contribute to reliability, security, and scalable infrastructure practices.