Senior Software Engineer, Github
$124-329.2k
Plus annual bonus and stock
AI-powered developer platform to build, scale & deliver secure software
Posted today
AI-powered developer platform to build, scale & deliver secure software
1001+ employees
Posted today
$124-329.2k
Plus annual bonus and stock
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help every developer—regardless of experience level—learn, code, and ship software effectively.
Role
Who you are
- We're looking for creative problem solvers and diverse thinkers who care about culture as much as they care about customers and features
- If you enjoy the challenge of building design systems at scale while delivering an equally empowering end user and developer experience, the Primer Engineering team might be the place for you. Great products reflect the teams that build them
- 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
- 4+ years of experience in JavaScript/React
- 3+ years of experience writing accessible HTML according to WCAG standards
- 2+ years contributing to or maintaining a UI component library or design system
Desirable
- 1+ year of experience providing technical leadership
- Minimum 2 years' experience as an engineer contributing to design systems or UI/UX using JavaScript and associated tools (e.g., React, TypeScript, Jest, Storybook, ESLint), HTML, and CSS
- Comfortable with Git version control
- Experience leading the implementation of complex UI components for multiple use cases within a website or application
- Experience with WCAG compliance and/or implementing accessibility best practicesExperience benchmarking UI performance and shipping optimizations
- Track record of working successfully with designers to implement and fine-tune complex UI
What the job involves
- GitHub is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Primer Engineering team to help evolve GitHub's open source design system, Primer. Primer Product maintainers play a vital role in ensuring GitHub's UI is consistent and accessible by supporting the implementation and adoption of reusable design patterns across the product
- In this role, you'll work with a distributed, diverse, and passionate community of engineers and designers to design, prototype, implement, and ship highly performant user experiences
- You'll focus on the details: crafting open source and inner source component libraries and developer tooling that make it easier for product teams to build high-quality UI with Primer, from designing balanced component APIs to maturing components for stable release
- You'll also partner with product engineers to surface and upstream common patterns and coach Primer adoption as net-new projects and UI patterns move from conception to launch
- Design, develop, test and ship high-quality technical solutions, written primarily in React/JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, that scale across multiple GitHub services
- You will be a core contributor to Primer React, and may also push changes to React-based internal components, github.com, and our Rails library, Primer ViewComponents
- Collaborate with cross-functional teammates to define and implement innovative UX solutions and advance UI quality
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews to encourage the growth of others and enable broad contribution to the design system
- Write architecture briefs and proposals to guide the future of the design system’s technical health and growth, and directly serve the needs of feature team consumers
- Design and implement well-reasoned component APIs to facilitate seamless integration between software components
- Own and advocate for the health and quality of the systems that the team builds, including participating in on-call and first responder rotations
- Become intimately familiar with the systems you build and take pride in writing maintainable code and supporting what the team has built, and contribute to high-quality documentation and technical maintenance of our docs site
- Partner with feature teams developing new features to share expertise on reusable UI components and coach Primer adoption as projects move from conception to launch, with a view toward growing the feature team’s systems thinking practices
- Leverage AI to build, maintain, and automate our systems, scale contribution, and ensure agents and humans alike can build UI successfully with Primer
Our take
GitHub was founded to make a developer’s job easier with open and asynchronous communication, distributed version control, and source code management with Git. In the first year alone, 100,000 users were pushing code on the site.
GitHub has quickly become the world’s most popular platform for developers to collaborate on open-source projects from anywhere. Nearly every major company including Facebook, Google, and Apple hosts open-source projects on GitHub.
Github's work culture reflects its global community, with employees collaborating remotely from all over the world. In 2018, Microsoft acquired the company as part of its broader strategy to enhance cloud computing services. Since then, GitHub has been dedicated to evolving its platform, consistently investing in ongoing development to better serve its users.
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Insights
18% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jul 2015
$250m
SERIES B
Jul 2012
$100m
SERIES A
Total funding: $350m
Company benefits
- Flexible time away to support balance in your work and life
- Clear diversity, inclusion, and anti-discrimination policies backed by business practices and company culture
- Five months of paid family leave to all new parents with the option to use it all at once or throughout the child’s first year
- Family forming benefits that cover fertility, infertility, adoption, and surrogacy costs and support
- Mental health benefits that offer resources and support and cover therapy and coaching sessions for you and your dependents
- Generous 401(k) matching with 50% match up to the IRS 402(g) limit (US; competitive non-US pension options internationally)
- Employee stock purchase plan that lets you purchase Microsoft stock at a discount. (Microsoft is our parent company.)
- 100% of medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums covered by GitHub for you + your dependents. (Includes gender-affirming benefits)
Company HQ
South Beach, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Kyle Daigle
(COO)Prior to GitHub, Kyle took on developer-focused challenges as an engineering and product leader in startups, working in FinTech, real estate, and consulting.
Vladimir Fedorov
(CTO)Before joining GitHub, Vlad co-founded UserClouds, a startup specializing in data governance and privacy. He spent 12 years at Facebook as SVP, leading engineering teams across Privacy, Ads, and Platform.
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