Senior Software Engineer

GitHub; United States; Remote; USD 124,000 - 329,000; Full time

Job summary

GitHub is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Developer Experience (DX) Build and Test team. This role focuses on core CI/CD systems powering GitHub's internal workflows at scale.

You will collaborate with distributed teams to design, implement, and improve platforms used by millions of developers. The position requires 6+ years in software engineering with strong expertise in languages such as C, C++, Java, Go, or Python; plus experience building production infrastructure on a major

Qualifications

• 6+ years in Software Engineering or related field with production software delivery experience.
• Proficiency in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python.
• Alternative paths include advanced degrees with strong software experience.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align on problems to solve in the DX Build and Test space.
• Drive technical solutions to critical CI/CD and reliability challenges with hands-on contribution.
• Communicate technical direction, progress, and risks to stakeholders and leadership.
• Partner across teams to identify improvements and best practices in development workflows.
• Shape architectural outcomes for secure, resilient systems and high‑quality code.
• Iteratively ship features and fixes balancing speed and long‑term velocity.

Skills

Multilang programming languages (C/C++

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation)

Kubernetes / container orchestration

Job description

Senior Software Engineer

United States

About GitHub

GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development — powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 180 million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate, and more than 77,000 organisations have adopted GitHub Copilot.

Locations

In this role you can work from Remote, United States

Overview

The Developer Experience (DX) organization is seeking a Senior Engineer to join the Build and Test team, part of the group responsible for the foundational systems that power GitHub's internal development workflows. DX focuses on improving how GitHub engineers build, test, and ship software across the company—operating at significant scale and complexity. Our work spans CI/CD platforms, developer tooling, virtualized infrastructure, and the paved paths that enable teams to move quickly while maintaining reliability and security.

The Build and Test team owns the core build and continuous integration systems used across GitHub. We provide the tooling, services, and operational support that allow engineers to deliver changes to production safely and efficiently. This includes running highly available, company-wide CI platforms; partnering closely with application and platform teams to improve reliability and performance; and continuously reducing friction in the developer workflow. The team plays a critical role in maintaining trust in GitHub's build and test infrastructure while balancing speed, scale, and stability.

GitHub's continued growth brings both opportunity and complexity. As a Senior Engineer in this role, you will work within a distributed team operating mission‑critical systems in a fast‑moving environment. You'll work closely with engineers across the company to improve CI reliability, reduce test flakiness, respond to incidents, and evolve our platforms to meet the needs of a rapidly scaling organization. This role blends technical leadership, deep engineering expertise, and operational ownership, with a direct impact on the daily experience of GitHub engineers and the quality of the products used by millions of developers worldwide.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineering teams, product management, customers, and engineering leadership to align on and understand the problems we want to solve.
• Drive technical solutions to GitHub's most critical problems, often unblocking others through design guidance and hands‑on contribution, via real‑time conversations in Slack or Zoom and with asynchronous communication in GitHub Issues, PRs, Discussions, and Projects.
• Communicate effectively to stakeholders and leadership on technical direction, progress, and risks.
• Partner across the team and with stakeholders, building relationships, and identifying technical opportunities and areas of improvement.
• Driving good architectural design outcomes, secure and resilient systems, and quality code.
• Iteratively shipping features and bug fixes, balancing speed to market with future velocity.

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

• A bias for action: you take ownership, communicate clearly across roles, and move things forward without waiting for permission
• Curiosity and a growth mindset: you seek out unfamiliar problems and enjoy learning new tools, languages, and domains
• Resilience in ambiguity: you stay effective when requirements are unclear or priorities shift
• 3+ years of experience working remotely as part of a distributed software engineering team
• Experience with one or more general‑purpose languages (e.g., Go, Ruby) in a production context, and a willingness to learn new ones
• Experience building and operating production infrastructure on a major cloud platform, with exposure to infrastructure‑as‑code and container orchestration tooling

Compensation Range

The base salary range for this job is USD $124,000.00 - USD $329,200.00 /Yr.