Senior Production Engineer – Reliability & Scale

GitHub, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 425,000; Full time

Job summary

GitHub, Inc. is building a new Production Engineering organization to elevate reliability and performance. You will embed with product and infrastructure teams, design and operate production software and systems, and mentor engineers to scale operational excellence.

You will own complex incidents end-to-end, improve observability and capacity planning, and automate critical workflows. This role emphasizes impact across GitHub's production platform and developers worldwide.

Qualifications

• 11+ years' experience in Software Engineering or related field with production software delivery in multiple languages.

Responsibilities

• Embed with engineering teams to improve reliability, scalability, and operability of production systems.
• Own complex production problems end-to-end, from debugging incidents to long-term solutions.
• Design, build, and operate software and infrastructure that improves GitHub production runs.
• Partner with product and infrastructure teams to improve observability, capacity planning, and resiliency.
• Write and review production-quality code, automate workflows, and reduce manual work.
• Participate in incident response and drive learning through reviews and investments.
• Influence technical direction and mentor engineers in Production Engineering.

Skills

Go

Rust

C++

Java

Python

Distributed systems

Linux

Observability

Education

Associate's Degree in CS/EE/Related

Bachelor's Degree in CS/Related

Master's Degree in CS/Related

Doctorate in CS/Related

Equivalent experience

Tools

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Job description

GitHub, Inc. is building a new Production Engineering organization to elevate reliability and performance. You will embed with product and infrastructure teams, design and operate production software and systems, and mentor engineers to scale operational excellence.

You will own complex incidents end-to-end, improve observability and capacity planning, and automate critical workflows. This role emphasizes impact across GitHub's production platform and developers worldwide.