Senior Software Engineer, Secret Scanning — Remote

GitHub, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 128,000 - 339,000; Full time

Job summary

GitHub, Inc. is seeking a seasoned Software Engineer for the Secret Scanning team. You will design, prototype, implement, ship, and support high‑performing user experiences with a distributed team delivering services used by millions of developers.

You will lead, mentor, and review code to improve the health of our systems and participate in on‑call rotations. We value creative problem solvers who care about culture, customers, and quality.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test and ship high-quality software solutions that scale across GitHub services.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement innovative solutions.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and code reviews to foster growth.
• Own and advocate for health and quality of systems, including on-call rotations.
• Write architecture briefs, conduct experiments, and prototype for planetary-scale systems.
• Design and implement APIs for seamless integration between components.
• Utilize CI/CD tools to set up automated pipelines for CI/CD.
• Write maintainable code and deeply understand the systems you build.

Job description

GitHub, Inc. is seeking a seasoned Software Engineer for the Secret Scanning team. You will design, prototype, implement, ship, and support high‑performing user experiences with a distributed team delivering services used by millions of developers.

You will lead, mentor, and review code to improve the health of our systems and participate in on‑call rotations. We value creative problem solvers who care about culture, customers, and quality.