Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer (Remote)

GitHub, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 128,000 - 339,000; Full time

Job summary

GitHub is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Compute Platform team. You will design, build, and operate Kubernetes-based platform systems that power GitHub's production workloads and fleet reliability.

In a highly distributed, remote-friendly environment, you will drive large-scale platform initiatives, mentor engineers, and shape operational standards across cross‑team boundaries. Azure AKS experience is a plus as we scale in cloud-native environments.

Qualifications

• Six+ years in software engineering with production-grade code.
• Two+ years operating large Kubernetes fleets.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate Kubernetes-based platform systems that support GitHub production services.
• Improve reliability, scalability, and operability across GitHub's Kubernetes / Hubbernetes fleet.
• Drive significant technical work across ambiguous, cross-team platform problems, including AKS migration, fleet management, control-plane reliability, and capacity management.
• Partner with service owners, infrastructure teams, and engineering leaders to shape safe migration paths, operational standards, and platform improvements.
• Debug and resolve complex production issues across Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, Linux, containers, networking, observability, and distributed systems.
• Build automation and guardrails that improve workload quality, capacity efficiency, cluster lifecycle operations, and incident response.
• Mentor engineers and raise the engineering bar through design review, code review, technical direction, and operational judgment.
• Write, review, test, and maintain reliable platform software and automation. Go experience is helpful, but strong production software engineering fundamentals matter more than any single language.
• Participate in on‑call and incident response for the systems owned by the team, including driving follow‑up work that prevents repeat issues.

Skills

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

Cloud-native platforms

Go

Tools

AKS

Azure

Job description

GitHub is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Compute Platform team. You will design, build, and operate Kubernetes-based platform systems that power GitHub's production workloads and fleet reliability.

In a highly distributed, remote-friendly environment, you will drive large-scale platform initiatives, mentor engineers, and shape operational standards across cross‑team boundaries. Azure AKS experience is a plus as we scale in cloud-native environments.