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Staff Software Engineer, GitHub Actions

GitHub· Engineering
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Hybrid (Remote, United States)$140.4k - $372.3kFull-timePosted 5d ago

About the role

Role responsible for architecting and delivering high-performance systems powering GitHub Actions, with technical leadership across distributed teams, focusing on reliability, security, and scale for CI/CD automation used by millions of developers.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, test and ship high-quality technical solutions that scale across multiple GitHub services and become intimately familiar with the systems you build and take pride in writing maintainable code.
  • Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews to encourage the growth of others; support teams in producing extensible and maintainable code, ensuring integration with downstream dependencies and adherence to quality standards.
  • Own and advocate for the health and quality of the systems that the team builds, including participating in on-call for first responder rotations and live incidents.
  • Design and implement APIs to facilitate seamless integration between software components.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams and partner with stakeholders and lead discussions for technical solutions, including design and cost considerations.
  • Lead the team in developing comprehensive testing strategies, defining success metrics, and incorporating customer feedback to drive continuous improvement.
  • Champion security across GitHub Actions by designing and implementing isolation mechanisms for untrusted code execution, ensuring compliance with enterprise security requirements, and partnering with Security teams to protect against vulnerabilities in our services.
  • Champion operational excellence by improving system reliability, reducing incident response times, and establishing best practices for monitoring, alerting, and runbooks across Actions services.
  • Drive and support technical roadmap that aligns with product goals, ensuring that engineering efforts are strategically prioritized and incorporating the adoption of new technologies and methodologies where applicable.

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, Go, Ruby, Rust, Python, JavaScript, C, C++, C#, Java (or equivalent experience in related combinations).
  • Willingness and ability to participate in a rotating on-call schedule, providing 24/7 coverage for 1–2 weeks each quarter.

Skills

Required:Software architecture
Nice to have:Mentorship and leadership

Benefits

  • Open to Remote, United States locations
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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