Senior Software Engineer, Ecosystem Events

Senior Software Engineer, Ecosystem Events

United States

Engineering

Individual Contributor

Yes

6298

Full Time

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Job Description

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 77,000 organisations have adopted GitHub Copilot.

Locations

In this role you can work from Remote, United States

Overview

As a software engineer on GitHub’s Ecosystem Events team, you will build and operate the webhooks platform that powers third-party integrations and many of GitHub’s flagship products. You will work with a distributed team of engineers on the event-driven systems developers use to integrate with GitHub.

In this role, you will design, implement, ship, and support improvements to our webhook services and APIs. You will improve how the platform handles growing traffic, investigate delivery problems, and make our services easier to operate. Our tech stack is primarily Go and Ruby. We work closely with the teams responsible for databases, queues, networking, and compute infrastructure to deliver webhooks reliably at scale.

We are looking for engineers who enjoy solving distributed systems problems and care about the developers who depend on our events and integrations. Our team works remotely and relies on clear written communication and asynchronous collaboration.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, test, and ship improvements to GitHub’s webhook services and APIs.

Build and maintain event-driven systems that handle high volumes of traffic reliably.

Debug problems across service boundaries and improve the tooling and observability needed to investigate them.

Work with infrastructure partners to improve platform performance and resolve dependencies.

Support teams across GitHub as they build webhook integrations.

Provide technical leadership and help other engineers grow through mentoring, pairing, and code reviews.

Maintain service health and respond to production problems through on-call and first responder rotations.

Write architecture proposals and use experiments and prototypes to evaluate approaches to scaling our systems.

Write maintainable code, test it, and use CI/CD pipelines to deliver changes safely.

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.

2+ years experience maintaining highly available, high-volume platforms.

2+ years experience building and maintaining event-driven systems.

Preferred Qualifications

Minimum 2 years experience in one or more scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python, or a similar language)

Minimum 2 years experience using general purpose programming languages (e.g., Go, Ruby, or a similar language).

Minimum 3 years experience with cloud environments and/or Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF) concepts.

Experience with queuing or streaming systems such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.

Experience with relational or distributed databases.

Experience working on distributed teams, with strong written and verbal communication skills.

Compensation Range

The base salary range for this job is USD $124,000.00 - USD $329,200.00 /Yr.