Senior Software Engineer

Remote from
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USA
Salary, yearly, USD
112,800 - 299,300
Employment type
Full Time,
Job posted
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23 Jun 2025
Experience level
Senior
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12345 / 123

About GitHub

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Platform engineering focuses on creating internal developer platforms (IDPs) that provide a self-service, automated, and consistent experience for software development teams. Our team is working on a new, exciting product that will enable all GitHub’s engineers to maintain and orchestrate their deployment process in one single app.

We’re looking for creative problem solvers and diverse thinkers who value culture as much as customers and features. We believe how we work is just as important as what we deliver. Big vision, shared purpose, passion for quality, curiosity, dedication, and investment in fun and collaboration are what drive great results. Great products reflect the teams that build themβ€”come join us!

Responsibilities

  • Build tools and systems that empathetically and pragmatically meet real operability needs of GitHub developers.
  • Develop and maintain scalable infrastructure.
  • Use data to understand the availability, reliability, and sustainability of our infrastructure.
  • Own and advocate for the health and quality of the systems that the team builds, including participating in on-call rotations and responding to incidents as necessary.
  • Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to determine requirements for a scenario.
  • Leverages a variety of feedback channels to incorporate insights into future designs or solution fixes.
  • Leads discussions for the technical solutions of products/features within the team’s area of responsibility and creates proposals for architecture by testing design hypotheses and helping to refine code plans.
  • Participates in code reviews to ensure coding standards are followed and that it meets the team’s and GitHub’s quality standards, is reliable and accurate, and is appropriate for the scale of the product/solution area.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum 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.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Coding project leadership experience.
  • Proficiency in programming languages such as Golang, Ruby, and TypeScript.
  • Proven incident response experience including an ability to mitigate impact under pressure.
  • Experience with various DevSecOps and CI/CD tools.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Prior experience with best practices when working and communicating with a remote team.

Other Requirements

  • Ability to meet GitHub, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft, GitHub’s parent company, Cloud Screen upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Compensation Range

The base salary range for this job is USD $112,800.00 – USD $299,300.00 /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.

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 areβ€”because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms.
Join us, and let’s change the world, together.

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