Senior Software Engineer

GitHub; United States; Remote; USD 112,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

GitHub is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Feature Delivery team. This role involves building internal platforms and maintaining infrastructure, ensuring quality and reliability while facilitating remote collaboration across teams. Ideal candidates have extensive experience in software development and a strong passion for technology.

Benefits

Competitive pay

Generous learning and growth opportunities

Excellent benefits to support remote work

Qualifications

• 6+ years experience in Software Engineering with proven experience in various programming languages.
• Strong coding project leadership and incident response experience preferred.
• Excellent communication skills for remote teamwork.

Responsibilities

• Build tools that meet real operability needs of developers.
• Maintain scalable infrastructure and monitor system health.
• Participate in code reviews and technical discussions.

Skills

C

C++

C#

Java

JavaScript

Go

Ruby

Rust

Python

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Doctorate in Computer Science or related field

Associate’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Golang

Ruby

TypeScript

DevSecOps tools

CI/CD tools

Job description

About GitHub

As the global home for all developers, GitHub is the complete AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 150+ million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate and experiment across 420+ million repositories. With all the collaborative features of GitHub, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write faster, better code.

Locations

In this role you can work from Remote, United States

Overview

GitHub is changing the way the world builds software, and we want you to help. At GitHub, we constantly strive to create an environment that allows our employees to do the best work of their lives. GitHub is looking for a talented Senior Software Engineer to join our Feature Delivery team, part of the Development Experience organization, as a platform engineer.

Platform engineering focuses on creating internal developer platforms (IDPs) that provide a self-service, automated, and consistent experience for software development teams. Our team is working on a new, exciting product that will enable all GitHub's engineers to maintain and orchestrate their deployment process in one single app.

We’re looking for creative problem solvers and diverse thinkers who value culture as much as customers and features. We believe how we work is just as important as what we deliver. Big vision, shared purpose, passion for quality, curiosity, dedication, and investment in fun and collaboration are what drive great results. Great products reflect the teams that build them—come join us!

Responsibilities

• Build tools and systems that empathetically and pragmatically meet real operability needs of GitHub developers.

• Develop and maintain scalable infrastructure.

• Use data to understand the availability, reliability, and sustainability of our infrastructure.

• Own and advocate for the health and quality of the systems that the team builds, including participating in on-call rotations and responding to incidents as necessary.

• Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to determine requirements for a scenario.

• Leverages a variety of feedback channels to incorporate insights into future designs or solution fixes.

• Leads discussions for the technical solutions of products/features within the team's area of responsibility and creates proposals for architecture by testing design hypotheses and helping to refine code plans.

• Participates in code reviews to ensure coding standards are followed and that it meets the team's and GitHub's quality standards, is reliable and accurate, and is appropriate for the scale of the product/solution area.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Coding project leadership experience.

• Proficiency in programming languages such as Golang, Ruby, and TypeScript.

• Proven incident response experience including an ability to mitigate impact under pressure.

• Experience with various DevSecOps and CI/CD tools.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Prior experience with best practices when working and communicating with a remote team.

Other Requirements

• Ability to meet GitHub, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft, GitHub’s parent company, Cloud Screen upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Compensation Range

The base salary range for this job is USD $112,800.00 - USD $299,300.00 /Yr.

These pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States. An individual's base pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant. At GitHub certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role.

GitHub values

• Customer-obsessed
• Ship to learn
• Growth mindset
• Own the outcome
• Better together
• Diverse and inclusive

Manager fundamentals

• Model
• Coach
• Care

Leadership principles

• Create clarity
• Generate energy
• Deliver success

Who We Are

GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with 150 million developers and counting. We’re also home to the biggest open-source community on earth (and 99% of the world’s software has open-source code in its DNA). Many of the apps and programs you use every day are built on GitHub.
Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!).At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We’re remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are—because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms.
Join us, and let’s change the world, together.

EEO Statement

GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don't discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!