Software Engineer III

Software Engineer III

United States

Engineering

Experienced Professional

Individual Contributor

Yes

5679

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

We are changing the way the world builds software, and we want you to help build npm!

We're looking for a full-stack software engineer to join the npm team. This team is responsible for the open source tools that empower the JavaScript ecosystem to create, distribute & consume packages. Collaboration with both internal & external stakeholders is fundamental to this team's success & ultimately drives how we work. Our team actively contributes back to the wider open source community, including the Node.js Project, OpenJS Foundation, Open Source Security Foundation & TC39.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to work as a full-stack engineer with a distributed, diverse & passionate team delivering features & improvements to our open source projects. You’ll get to work closely with external community contributors as well as internal stakeholders from engineering, design, security, support, product & leadership. Your work will have a direct impact on the lives of millions of developers around the world.

Responsibilities

You will write, review & maintain code & technical documentation

You will interact with our community, consumers & contributors, on a daily basis

You will collaborate closely with internal & external stakeholders to define, design & develop new features that align business objectives with end-user’s wants & needs

You will be responsible for helping triage & remediate bugs & security vulnerabilities

You will steward some of the most impactful JavaScript open-source projects, relied on by millions of developers, enabling billions of downloads &, ultimately, creating connections to the world’s largest package registry

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

4+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, 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 3+ years experience.

OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 2+ years experience in Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, 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.

OR equivalent experience.

2+ year(s) of experience with Cloud Services

2+ years of experience developing & debugging large scale projects, applications or developer tools

Preferred Qualifications:

2+ years' experience with Node.js

3+ years experience with cloud services, including AWS development

Experience building applications adhering to the highest security standards

Experienced in using AI-assisted coding and productivity tools

Compensation Range

The base salary range for this job is USD $107,700.00 - USD $285,900.00 /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.

• 4+ years software engineering experience or equivalent degree with 2+ years coding in languages like C, C++, C#, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
• 2+ years experience with cloud services and developing/debugging large-scale projects or developer tools
• Associate’s, Bachelor’s, or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent experience