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Staff Software Engineer, Traffic Team

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Hybrid (Remote, United Kingdom)Full-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Staff Software Engineer role on GitHub's Traffic Team, responsible for building and maintaining the edge traffic infrastructure, including load balancing and routing, with remote-first collaboration and a focus on scalability, reliability, and performance.

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical decision making and architecture
  • Design and implement scalable, reliable and performant solutions for complex problems like rate-limiting, routing, etc.
  • Maintain and improve the GitHub Load Balancer, and other systems related to traffic management at GitHub
  • Write, review, and maintain code primarily in Go and Ruby & Rails
  • Mentor other engineers in their technical and architectural decision making
  • Participate in the on-call rotation, and team meetings

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.
  • 4+ years building and supporting large, high traffic applications at scale within platform/infrastructure domains
  • 4+ years supporting and building cloud native workloads in Azure, AWS or Google Cloud
  • 2+ years experience maintaining a Load Balancer with proven experience in abuse protection mechanisms for DDoS attacks, load shedding, etc.

Skills

Required:Experience with distributed systems and load balancingGoRuby & Rails
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