Senior Software Engineer, Monolith Systems

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

Job summary

A leading developer platform is seeking an experienced Software Engineer to enhance collaboration. The role involves designing, developing, and shipping reliable solutions. Candidates should have 6+ years of experience in Software Engineering with knowledge of multiple coding languages. The position is remote, offering competitive pay and benefits.

Benefits

Competitive pay

Generous learning and growth opportunities

Excellent benefits

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in Software Engineering or a related field.
• Proven experience with production software coding in languages like C, C++, Java or Python.
• Experience with cloud environments preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and ship reliable technical solutions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement solutions.
• Provide mentorship and technical leadership.

Skills

Software Engineering

Problem Solving

Collaboration

Technical Leadership

API Design

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD Tools

Redis

MySQL

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

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.

The Monolith Systems team is dedicated to the continuous health and improvement of the Monolith at GitHub. The team’s mission is part reliability, part performance, and part application services. What does that look like? The day to day work varies based on what’s most important. Some days it may be performance tuning the Kubernetes deployments for the monolith, migrating critical jobs to a new Redis cluster, working with the Traffic team to add request queuing in the load balancer, or decreasing the application’s MySQL timeout. This role is highly collaborative and impactful across teams and entire organizations.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test and ship high-quality technical solutions that scale across multiple GitHub services and make them more reliable.
• Own and understand the operational aspects of building systems across the GitHub portfolio of products.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement innovative solutions at scale.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews to encourage the growth of others.
• 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 equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 4+ years experience in one or more scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python, or a similar language)
• 5+ years experience using general purpose programming languages (e.g., Go, Ruby, or a similar language).
• 3+ years experience with cloud environments and/or Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF) concepts.

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.

EEO Statement

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