Staff Software Engineer

Staff Software Engineer

United States

Engineering

Individual Contributor

Yes

6486

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 at GitHub on the Monolith Platform team, you will enhance the collaboration experience at GitHub by working closely with a community of engineers with a distributed, diverse and passionate team delivering the services that millions of developers depend on. In this role you will design, prototype, implement, ship and support highly performant, resilient, and scalable solutions to support our monolith developers at GitHub.

We are looking for creative problem solvers and diverse thinkers, people who care about culture as well as customers and features. We believe that how we do things is as important as what we do. Big vision, a common purpose, passion for quality, curiosity, dedication, and investment in fun and collaboration are what lead to great results. Great products reflect the teams that build them.

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.

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:

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, Go, Ruby, Rust, Python, JavaScript, C, C++, C#, Java,

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, Go, Ruby, Rust, Python, JavaScript, C, C++, C#, Java,

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, Go, Ruby, Rust, Python, JavaScript, C, C++, C#, Java,

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, Go, Ruby, Rust, Python, JavaScript, C, C++, C#, Java,

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, Go, Ruby, Rust, Python, JavaScript, C, C++, C#, Java,

OR equivalent experience.

6+ years experience building and operating high-scale web applications

2+ years experience designing and building REST APIs

4+ years experience working with distributed systems and scalable architectures

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience in one or more scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python, or a similar language), technologies and software platforms, (e.g., Ruby, React, Go, Javascript/typescript, MySQL, cosmosDB, Elasticsearch), front-end frameworks (e.g., React.js), and / or telemetry dashboard (e.g., Datadog, Sentry, Azure Data Explorer)

Demonstrated experience designing large-scale, cloud-based systems, including database optimization and caching, with a strong understanding of distributed systems and microservices.

Compensation Range

The base salary range for this job is USD $140,400.00 - USD $372,300.00 /Yr.