Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

United States

Engineering

Experienced Professional

Individual Contributor

Yes

5734

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

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 $124,000.00 - USD $329,200.00 /Yr.

• 6+ years software engineering experience with production coding in languages like Go, Ruby, Rust, or similar.
• 6+ years building, deploying, and maintaining distributed services at scale.
• 1+ year technical leadership experience.