Senior Software Engineer

About GitHub GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development — powered by Copilot to build scale and deliver secure software. Over 180 million developers including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies use GitHub to collaborate and more than 77000 organisations have adopted GitHub Copilot. Locations In this role you can work from Remote United States

Overview

The Data Architecture team at GitHub owns the infrastructure and code that power Redis-based caching and Object Storage across GitHub. We operate critical distributed systems where availability performance and safe change management are essential. Our work includes improving service health and observability diagnosing complex production failures designing resilient deployment and traffic-management patterns strengthening authentication and access controls and supporting these capabilities across GitHub.com and GitHub Enterprise Server. We’re looking for a senior infrastructure and data-focused engineer to join the team. This engineer will lead reliability improvements evolve monitoring and operational tooling investigate incidents across service and platform boundaries and deliver carefully staged changes to production systems. The role requires strong distributed-systems judgment hands-on operational experience and the ability to collaborate across infrastructure security and product teams.

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 Required

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).

Preferred Qualifications

6+ years experience with Redis S3 or Azure Storage. Experiences and with Infrastructure as code configuration management and associated tooling such as Terraform Puppet and Ansible. 3 years+ experience in one or more scripting languages (e.g. Bash Python or a similar language).

Compensation

Range The base salary range for this job is USD $124000.00 - USD $329200.00 /Yr. These pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States. An individual's base pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience knowledge skills abilities of the applicant. At GitHub certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards including annual bonus and stock. These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role. In addition certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role. This position will be open for a minimum of 3 days with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. GitHub values Customer-obsessed Ship to learn Growth mindset Own the outcome Better together Diverse and inclusive Manager fundamentals Model Coach Care Leadership principles Create clarity Generate energy Deliver success

Who We Are

GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with 150 million developers and counting. We’re also home to the biggest open-source community on earth (and 99% of the world’s software has open-source code in its DNA). Many of the apps and programs you use every day are built on GitHub. Our teams are dreamers doers and pioneers leading the way in AI driving humanitarian efforts around the globe and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!). At GitHub our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We’re remote-first and offer competitive pay generous learning and growth opportunities and excellent benefits to support you wherever you are—because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms. Join us and let’s change the world together. EEO Statement GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don't discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression sexual orientation race religion age national origin citizenship disability pregnancy status veteran status or any other differences. Also if you have a disability please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you we're happy to accommodate!