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Staff Software Engineer, Compute Platform

GitHub· Engineering
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Hybrid (United States)$1404k - $3723kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Staff-level software engineering role focused on designing, building, and operating Kubernetes-based platform systems (Hubbernetes) to support GitHub’s production workloads, with emphasis on reliability, scalability, automation, and reducing toil in a remote, distributed team.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate Kubernetes-based platform systems that support GitHub production services.
  • Improve reliability, scalability, and operability across GitHub's Kubernetes / Hubbernetes fleet.
  • Lead technical work across ambiguous, cross-team platform problems, including AKS migration, fleet management, control-plane reliability, and capacity management.
  • Partner with service owners, infrastructure teams, and engineering leaders to define safe migration paths, operational standards, and long-term platform direction.
  • Debug and resolve complex production issues across Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, Linux, containers, networking, observability, and distributed systems. Build automation and guardrails that improve workload quality, capacity efficiency, cluster lifecycle operations, and incident response.
  • Mentor engineers and raise the engineering bar through design review, code review, technical direction, and operational judgment.
  • Write, review, test, and maintain reliable platform software and automation. Go experience is helpful, but strong production software engineering fundamentals matter more than any single language.
  • Participate in on-call and incident response for the systems owned by the team, including driving follow-up work that prevents repeat issues.

Qualifications

  • 9+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding 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, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field AND 7+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, 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 AND 5+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python OR Doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python OR equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Kubernetes
Nice to have:Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Last updated Aug 27, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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