Senior Staff Software Engineer – Monolith Platform (Remote)

GitHub, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 372,000; Full time

Job summary

GitHub, Inc. is hiring a software engineer to design and deliver scalable services used by millions of developers. You will lead by example, write maintainable code, and mentor teammates while contributing to on-call rotations and system health.

The role emphasizes collaboration across teams, architecture briefs, prototypes, and scalable APIs. Strong distributed systems experience and a deep understanding of CI/CD are required.

Qualifications

• 9+ years of experience in software engineering with production software delivery in multiple languages (Go, Ruby, Rust, Python, JS, C, C++, Java).
• Bachelor's degree or higher in CS or related field.
• Strong experience building large-scale distributed systems and REST APIs.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test and ship high-quality technical solutions across GitHub services.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and code reviews to grow the team.
• Own system health, participate in on-call rotations and incident response.

Skills

9+ years software engineering

REST APIs design

Distributed systems

CI/CD experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Go

Ruby

Python

JavaScript

C++

Job description

GitHub, Inc. is hiring a software engineer to design and deliver scalable services used by millions of developers. You will lead by example, write maintainable code, and mentor teammates while contributing to on-call rotations and system health.

The role emphasizes collaboration across teams, architecture briefs, prototypes, and scalable APIs. Strong distributed systems experience and a deep understanding of CI/CD are required.