Staff Software Engineer — CI/CD & Actions (Remote)

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

Job summary

GitHub is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to architect and deliver high-performance systems powering developer collaboration at scale. You will drive design through production, leading distributed teams and shaping the technical roadmap for GitHub Actions and related services.

The role emphasizes security, reliability, and operating at massive scale, with responsibilities spanning API design, on-call ownership, and cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• 9+ years' experience in software engineering with production systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test and ship high-quality technical solutions that scale across multiple services.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and code reviews to grow others.
• Own health and quality of systems, participate in on-call rotations.
• Design and implement APIs for seamless component integration.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders on technical solutions.
• Lead testing strategies, define success metrics and drive improvements.
• Champion security by isolating untrusted code and ensuring enterprise compliance.
• Improve reliability, monitoring, and runbooks across Actions services.
• Drive technical roadmap aligned with product goals and new technologies.

Skills

Distributed systems

Go

Ruby

Python

JavaScript

C/C++

Java

On-call experience

Security awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Master's degree in CS or related field

Doctorate in CS or related field

Associate degree + 8+ years experience

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Container orchestration

API design

Job description

GitHub is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to architect and deliver high-performance systems powering developer collaboration at scale. You will drive design through production, leading distributed teams and shaping the technical roadmap for GitHub Actions and related services.

The role emphasizes security, reliability, and operating at massive scale, with responsibilities spanning API design, on-call ownership, and cross-functional collaboration.