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Principal Production Engineer

GitHub· Engineering
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Remote$160.2k - $425kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Production Engineers embedded with product and infrastructure teams to improve reliability, performance, scalability, and developer productivity through software, automation, and operational excellence for GitHub's production systems.

Responsibilities

  • Embed with engineering teams to improve the reliability, scalability, and operability of GitHub's production systems.
  • Own complex production problems end-to-end, from debugging live incidents to designing long-term engineering solutions.
  • Design, build, and operate software and infrastructure that improves how GitHub runs in production.
  • Partner with product and infrastructure teams to improve observability, capacity planning, performance, resiliency, and operational readiness.
  • Write and review production-quality code, automate operational workflows, and eliminate repetitive manual work.
  • Participate in incident response and help drive learning through incident reviews and follow-up engineering investments.
  • Influence technical direction across teams by establishing engineering practices that improve operational excellence at scale.
  • Mentor engineers and help build Production Engineering as a technical discipline within GitHub.

Qualifications

  • 11+ 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 10+ 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 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 Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, 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 Doctorate 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 equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Software engineering in modern languagesDistributed systems design and operationLinux and networkingInfluencing technical direction
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