Senior Software Engineer, Vulnerability & Supply Chain

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

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