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Staff Software Engineer, Mac Cloud

GitHub· Engineering
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Hybrid (Remote United States)$140.4k - $372.3kUNAVAILABLEPosted 4d ago

About the role

Hands-on Staff Software Engineer to set technical direction for the macOS platform within GitHub Actions, lead cross-team efforts, and drive scalability, reliability, and operational excellence at scale for the macOS/macOS CI/CD pipeline. Remote-friendly role based in the United States.

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.
  • Write architecture briefs and proposals and carry out code experiments.
  • 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.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams and partner with stakeholders and lead discussions for technical solutions, including design and cost considerations.
  • Create and guide others in 1) developing clear testing plans to assure solution quality, reliability, and performance; 2) defining success metrics; and 3) integrating customer feedback for continuous improvement; all while ensuring system architecture meets security and compliance standards.
  • Maintain executional and operational excellence within and potentially across teams/organizations.
  • Apply debugging tools and telemetry to verify assumptions, proactively resolve issues, and optimize code performance and maintainability.
  • 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, 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:9+ years of software engineering experienceProgramming languages (C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, Python)On-call / incident response
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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