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Senior Software Engineer, Data

GitHub

United States

Remote

USD 112,000 - 300,000

Full time

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Job summary

A leading software collaboration platform is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to enhance the user experience. In this role, you'll design and implement solutions while mentoring junior engineers. Requirements include 6+ years of experience and proficiency in multiple programming languages. The position is fully remote, offering a competitive salary range of $112,800 - $299,300 annually.

Benefits

Competitive salary
Generous learning and growth opportunities
Excellent benefits

Qualifications

  • 6+ years experience in Software Engineering or related discipline.
  • Experience delivering production software in various languages.
  • Familiarity with relational and non-relational databases.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, test and ship high-quality technical solutions.
  • Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership.
  • Design and implement APIs for integration between software components.

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

MySQL
Cosmos DB
Azure Storage
Azure Redis Cache
Azure Data Explorer
CI/CD
Job description
Overview

Senior Software Engineer, Data — As a software engineer at GitHub, you will enhance the collaboration experience at GitHub by working closely with a community of engineers and designers with a distributed, diverse and passionate team delivering the services that millions of developers depend on. In this role you will design, prototype, implement, ship and support highly performant and inspiring user experiences with your team. We are looking for creative problem solvers and diverse thinkers, people who care about culture as well as customers and features. We believe that how we do things is as important as what we do. Big vision, a common purpose, passion for quality, curiosity, dedication, and investment in fun and collaboration are what lead to great results. Great products reflect the teams that build them.

Locations

In this role you can work from Remote, United States

Responsibilities
  • Design, develop, test and ship high-quality technical solutions that scale across multiple GitHub services.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement innovative solutions.
  • Mentor junior engineers
  • Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews
  • Own and advocate for the health and quality of the systems that the team builds, including participating in on-call and first responder rotations
  • Write architecture briefs and proposals, carry out code experiments, and build prototypes to learn how we can achieve planetary scale with our systems.
  • Design and implement APIs to facilitate seamless integration between software components.
  • Utilize CI/CD tools to set up automated pipelines for continuous integration and delivery.
  • Become intimately familiar with the systems you build and take pride in writing maintainable code.
Qualifications

Required 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 AND 0+ 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 equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Some experience in one or more scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python, or a similar language)
  • Some experience with cloud environments and/or Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF) concepts
  • Experience working with both relational (e.g. mysql) and most importantly non-relational datastores (e.g. Cosmos)
  • Some experience with Golang
  • Experience working with Azure resources such as Azure Storage (blob and table particularly), Azure Redis Cache, Azure Data Explorer Clusters
  • Experience operating Cosmos DB clusters at scale.
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!

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