Senior Software Engineer - Global Platform & Infra (Remote)

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

Job summary

GitHub Enterprise Cloud Platform team seeks a Senior Software Engineer to build and operate infrastructure powering regional deployments. You will collaborate across provisioning, networking, compute, storage, and onboarding to expand GitHub's multi-region footprint securely.

You will drive tooling improvements, incident response, and platform investments while partnering with engineering teams to raise deployment velocity and reduce toil.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in software engineering with production code in multiple languages.
• Advanced degrees corresponding to the level of experience required.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code, provisioning automation, or platform orchestration.
• Proven ability to adopt AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity.
• Hands-on on-call experience and post-incident retrospectives.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve provisioning workflows for regional deployments.
• Own platform services and automation across networking, compute, storage, DNS, and onboarding.
• Design capacity management for multi-region environments.
• Collaborate with teams to bring GitHub services into regional environments.
• Improve CI/CD quality and deployment safety for regional pipelines.
• Enhance tooling, validation, and incident response for regional deployments.
• Drive investments to reduce toil and increase deployment velocity.
• Support reliability, scalability, and lifecycle management of the platform.
• Lead investigations on critical issues affecting availability or provisioning.

Skills

Programming languages

On-call experience

AI-assisted tooling

Infrastructure as code

CI/CD practices

Multi-region / cloud

Education

Associate’s degree in CS/EE/related

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE/related

Master's degree in CS/EE/related

Doctorate in CS/EE/related

Equivalent experience

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

Pulumi

GitHub Copilot

Job description

GitHub Enterprise Cloud Platform team seeks a Senior Software Engineer to build and operate infrastructure powering regional deployments. You will collaborate across provisioning, networking, compute, storage, and onboarding to expand GitHub's multi-region footprint securely.

You will drive tooling improvements, incident response, and platform investments while partnering with engineering teams to raise deployment velocity and reduce toil.