Software Engineer I, Secret Scanning

GitHub, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 69,000 - 183,000; Full time

Job summary

GitHub is the world's leading AI-powered developer platform, with 150 million developers and a vast open-source community. This role sits on the Security Products team, developing tools to find, fix, and prevent code vulnerabilities and credential leaks across millions of repositories.

You will design, prototype, implement, ship, and support high-performance user experiences with a distributed team. The organization emphasizes culture, collaboration, and growth as core values, with a

Qualifications

• 1+ year experience maintaining production software 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, or related field
• OR equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Write, review, and maintain clean, high-quality code primarily in Ruby, Go, and JavaScript.
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and designers to understand problems, explore solutions, and build new features.
• Ship small features and bug fixes regularly, taking on larger and more complex work as you grow in the role.
• Participate in technical discussions, planning, and code reviews, sharing your ideas and giving thoughtful feedback to teammates.
• Learn and follow the team's engineering practices, while helping improve the quality, reliability, and maintainability of the systems you work on.
• Help build and maintain APIs, automated tests, and CI/CD pipelines that support reliable software delivery.
• Participate in on-call and first responder rotations, helping investigate and resolve production issues.
• Work with support teams and other partners to investigate, triage, and debug technical support requests.

Skills

Software engineering

JavaScript

Go

Ruby

Python

C++

C

C#

Java

Education

Associate's Degree in Computer Science

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

The GitHub Security Products team is on a mission to secure the world's software.We'rebuilding tools that make it easy to find, fix, and prevent code vulnerabilities and credential leaks, deploying them to millions of developers. Every day, developers unintentionally commit secrets into their repositories. Without intervention, this can cause damaging privacy and monetary losses.We'resolving that.

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 togreat results. Great products reflect the teams that build them.

Responsibilities

• Write, review, and maintain clean, high-quality code primarily in Ruby, Go, and JavaScript.


• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and designers to understand problems, explore solutions, and build new features.


• Ship small features and bug fixes regularly, taking on larger and more complex work as you grow in the role.


• Participate in technical discussions, planning, and code reviews, sharing your ideas and giving thoughtful feedback to teammates.


• Learn and follow the team's engineering practices, while helping improve the quality, reliability, and maintainability of the systems you work on.


• Help build and maintain APIs, automated tests, and CI/CD pipelines that support reliable software delivery.


• Participate in on-call and first responder rotations, helping investigate and resolve production issues.


• Work with support teams and other partners to investigate, triage, and debug technical support requests.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• 1+ year(s) experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining production software 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, or related field
  
  
  • OR equivalent experience.
  
  
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building user-facing web applications with modern web technologies


• Experience using general purpose programming languages (e.g., Go, Ruby, or similar language).

Compensation Range

The base salary range for this job is USD $69,000.00 - USD $182,900.00 /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.

This position will be open for a minimum of 3 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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.

Join us, and let's change the world, together.

EEO Statement

GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don't discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!