[Remote] Staff Software Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development, and they are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to enhance the collaboration experience by delivering scalable solutions. The role involves designing, prototyping, and supporting high-performance systems that millions of developers depend on.
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
- Write architecture briefs and proposals and carry out code experiments
- Automate processes to make them repeatable, consistent, and save your team time
- 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
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams and partner with stakeholders and lead discussions for technical solutions, including design and cost considerations
- Create and guide others in 1) developing clear testing plans to assure solution quality, reliability, and performance; 2) defining success metrics; and 3) integrating customer feedback for continuous improvement - all while ensuring system architecture meets security and compliance standards
- Maintain executional and operational excellence within and potentially across teams/organizations
- Apply debugging tools and telemetry to verify assumptions, proactively resolve issues, and optimize code performance and maintainability
- Drive and support technical roadmap that aligns with product goals, ensuring that engineering efforts are strategically prioritized and incorporating the adoption of new technologies and methodologies where applicable
Skills
- 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, 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 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, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
- 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, 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 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 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, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
- OR equivalent experience
- Demonstrated experience with large-scale system architecture and design, particularly in cloud-based environments, with a strong understanding of distributed systems and microservices
- 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)
- Experience with cloud environments and/or Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF) concepts
- One or more of: Experience building and operating planetary-scale API platforms, with deep knowledge of monitoring, performance optimization, error analytics, and/or API specifications and standards (e.g., OpenAPI)
- Familiarity with GraphQL APIs at scale, such as runtime infrastructure, routers & schema management ecosystems like WunderGraph, Apollo Federation, or custom implementations
- Experience with queuing and streaming systems like Kafka or RabbitMQ, or similar technologies
Benefits
- At GitHub certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock
- Opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role
- We’re remote-first
- Generous learning and growth opportunities
- Excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are
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