Staff Software Engineer, Github
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$118.1-313.3k
AI-powered developer platform to build, scale & deliver secure software
Job no longer available
AI-powered developer platform to build, scale & deliver secure software
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$118.1-313.3k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help every developer—regardless of experience level—learn, code, and ship software effectively.
Role
Who you are
- Proficiency in Rust, C or C++ and proficiency in systems programming, search index internals and information retrieval
- 6+ years experience designing, building, scaling and maintaining large-scale distributed systems
- 4+ years experience designing and implementing data structures and algorithms
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Experience effectively contributing to technical strategy and roadmaps
- Passionate about fostering good engineering practices and processes
- Solid understanding of testing principles and high quality software
- Understanding of production system monitoring and observability
- Troubleshooting skills across network, application, caching, queuing, load-balancing, storage and distributed services layers
- Excellent analytical skills as well as communication skills both verbal and written. We’re a distributed team so we’re extra mindful about communication
- Strong customer focus and data driven approach
What the job involves
- GitHub is changing the way the world builds software, and we want you to help! We’re looking for a Staff level Software Engineer to join the Code Search team
- In this role, you will have the opportunity to be part of the team that’s reinventing the platform and infrastructure that millions of developers depend on for -- re-thinking everything from the experience to the system architecture supporting it
- You will be involved in the design, rollout, and support of a highly performant, highly scalable and highly available search platform with your team
- Code search, semantic search and AI are a complex, cutting edge problem space and you will help your senior team navigate uncertainty and make effective implementation tradeoff decisions, relying on careful reasoning and decision making around a significant infrastructure budget
- Work with the team to understand technical constraints, and develop, communicate, and track against realistic plans to consistently ship products, features, and bug fixes
- Coordinate with engineering and product leadership to define and prioritize projects that help us meet business objectives
- Ensure the team builds software that is architecturally consistent and of high quality to reliably meet customer needs
- Support a highly available service used by millions of users on a daily basis
- Help cultivate an environment where team members are empowered and demonstrate a strong sense of ownership and belonging
- Help ensure that individuals on the team are learning, growing and advancing in their respective careers
- Mentor, pair, and delegate work to encourage the professional and technical growth of your team and those around you
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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