Software Engineer: Secret Scanning (Remote)

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

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