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Senior Software Engineer

GitHub· Engineering
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Hybrid (Remote, United States)$124k - $329.2kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior infrastructure and data-focused engineer on GitHub's Data Architecture team, focusing on reliability, monitoring, and distributed systems across GitHub.com and GitHub Enterprise Server.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, test and ship high-quality technical solutions that scale across multiple GitHub services.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement innovative solutions.
  • Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews to encourage the growth of others.
  • Own and advocate for the health and quality of the systems that the team builds, including participating in on-call and first responder rotations
  • Write architecture briefs and proposals, carry out code experiments, and build prototypes to learn how we can achieve planetary scale with our systems.
  • Design and implement APIs to facilitate seamless integration between software components.
  • Utilize CI/CD tools to set up automated pipelines for continuous integration and delivery.
  • Become intimately familiar with the systems you build and take pride in writing maintainable code

Qualifications

  • 6+ 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 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 Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ 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 2+ 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.
  • OR equivalent experience.
  • 1+ year(s) technical leadership experience.
  • 6+ years experience of Building, deploying and maintaining Distributed Services at scale.
  • 3+ years experience using general purpose programming languages (e.g., Go, Ruby, or Rust).

Skills

Required:Distributed systems design and operationOn-call / incident responseAPI design and integrationCI/CD toolingLeadership and mentorship

Benefits

  • The description mentions eligibility for benefits and additional rewards including annual bonus and stock, with compensation varied by location and role.
Last updated Sep 3, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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