Senior Software Engineer, Vulnerability Management

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

Job summary

GitHub is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Vulnerability Management. You will work on backend and distributed systems to find and remediates vulnerabilities across GitHub’s services and infrastructure.

The role emphasizes collaboration with cross-functional teams and leadership in building secure, scalable software supply chain controls. Based in the United States with remote work options, this individual contributor role offers opportunities to influence security across products and

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering with production code experience.
• Proficiency in at least one of: C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, Python.
• Degrees as listed above with corresponding experience paths.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test and ship scalable backend solutions.
• Build the platform that collects security findings from container image, cloud, host, and code scanning, matches each finding to the team that owns it, and tracks remediation through risk scoring, SLAs, and exceptions.
• Design and roll out software supply chain controls across GitHub Actions, Docker builds, and Dependabot, in a way teams can adopt without slowing down.
• Build systems that meet compliance requirements such as FedRAMP, and evolve production services without breaking APIs used by other teams.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement innovative solutions.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews.
• Own and advocate for the health and quality of the systems, including on-call rotations.
• Write architecture briefs and prototypes to learn about planetary-scale systems.
• Take pride in maintainable code.

Skills

Programming languages: C, C++, C#,Java

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in CS/EE or related field

Associate’s Degree + 5+ years experience

Master’s Degree

Doctorate in CS/EE

Equivalent experience

Job description

Senior Software Engineer, Vulnerability Management

United States

Engineering

Individual Contributor

Yes

5994

Full Time

Job Description

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

Securing the home for all developers starts with securing GitHub itself. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Vulnerability Management Engineering team, you’ll build and run the systems that find vulnerabilities across GitHub’s services and infrastructure, get each one to the team that owns it, and control how our code, packages, and container images are sourced and built. It’s backend and distributed systems work where the users are other engineers, and you’ll build deep expertise in vulnerability management and software supply chain security along the way.

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.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test and ship high-quality technical solutions that scale across multiple GitHub services.
• Build the platform that collects security findings from container image, cloud, host, and code scanning, matches each finding to the team that owns it, and tracks remediation through risk scoring, SLAs, and exceptions.
• Design and roll out software supply chain controls, such as authenticated package and container proxies that enforce policy, across GitHub Actions, Docker builds, and Dependabot, in a way teams can adopt without slowing down.
• Build systems that meet compliance requirements such as FedRAMP, and evolve production services without breaking the APIs other teams rely on.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including service owners, platform engineering, cloud security, and compliance, to define and implement innovative solutions.
• 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.
• Become intimately familiar with the systems you build and take pride in writing maintainable code.

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

• 2+ years experience using general purpose and scripting languages (e.g., Go, Python, or a similar language).
• 3+ years experience with cloud environments and/or Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) concepts.

Compensation Range

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