Software Engineer III, Runtime Platform

myGwork - LGBTQ+ Business Community; United States; Remote; USD 97,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

A major tech company is seeking a Software Engineer to enhance their deployment infrastructure services. You will work in a remote-first environment, collaborating with a talented team to develop high-quality, scalable, and reliable software solutions. Join us and help shape the future of software development!

Qualifications

• 4+ years experience in Software Engineering or related discipline.
• Experience with running and maintaining production systems.
• 2+ years experience with large scale cloud services.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain deployment infrastructure services.
• Provide technical mentorship and code reviews.
• Build systems that meet operability needs.

Skills

C

C++

C#

JavaScript

Go

Ruby

Rust

Python

Cloud services

Linux

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Master's Degree in Computer Science

Associate Degree in related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Container orchestration systems

Job description

About GitHub

As the global home for all developers, GitHub is the complete AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 150+ million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate and experiment across 420+ million repositories. With all the collaborative features of GitHub, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write faster, better code.

Locations

In this role you can work from Remote, United States

Overview

GitHub is changing the way the world builds software, and we want you to help. At GitHub, we constantly strive to create an environment that allows our employees to do the best work of their lives. GitHub is looking for a talented Software Engineer to join our Platform Team in the Development Experience department.

Our team is working on multiple products all aimed to enable GitHub’s engineers to deliver value in a faster and secure way. We work on the entire delivery stack from chatops infra to PR linting and up to the actual deployments of Github’s services both to k8s and vm environments.

On this team, you’ll collaborate across functions and across teams to deliver the best possible developer experience for all engineers here at GitHub. In this role, you will be having the opportunity to work as an engineer with a globally distributed, diverse and passionate team where you will be expected to demonstrate independence and a drive to deliver. You will design, implement, rollout and support a highly performant, highly scalable and highly available infrastructure with your team and production managers. This team and its parent Development Experience department are highly distributed across the globe and span a variety of diverse backgrounds. We recognize the value this diversity brings to our teams and our products, so creating and maintaining an environment where every individual feels safe to bring their unique perspective to the challenges we're solving is important to us.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate a strong commitment to high quality software development practices

• Actively design, develop, document and maintain our deployment infrastructure services with a product mindset

• Provide compassionate technical mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews to encourage professional and technical growth of those around you

• Build tools and systems that empathetically and pragmatically meet real operability needs of GitHub developers

• Develop and maintain scalable infrastructure

• Use data to understand the availability, reliability, and sustainability of our infrastructure

• Work closely with other teams from around the organization

• Own and advocate for the health and quality of the systems that the team builds, including participating in on-call rotations and responding to incidents as necessary

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, 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 3+ years experience

  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 2+ years experience in Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, 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

  • OR equivalent experience.

• 2+ years experience with running, operating, and maintaining production systems

• 2+ years experience designing, building and running large scale and highly available cloud services or distributed systems

Preferred Qualifications:

• Solid understanding of testing principles and high quality software

• Experience with Kubernetes or other container orchestration systems

• Experience building infrastructure automation

• Experience working with the Linux operating system

• Experience running, monitoring and troubleshooting issues in a production always-on service

• Excellent analytical skills and communication skills. Fluent in English both verbal and written. We are a global cross-countries team so we’re extra mindful about communication.

Compensation Range

The base salary range for this job is USD $97,900.00 - USD $259,900.00 /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.

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!