Software Engineer, Github
Runtime Platform
$97.9-259.9k
An individual's base pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant
AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software
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AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$97.9-259.9k
An individual's base pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help every developer—regardless of experience level—learn, code, and ship software effectively.
Role
Who you are
- GitHub is looking for a talented Software Engineer to join our Platform Team in the Development Experience department
- 4+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, 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 3+ years experience
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 2+ years experience in Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, 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
- OR equivalent experience
- 2+ years experience with running, operating, and maintaining production systems
- 2+ years experience designing, building and running large scale and highly available cloud services or distributed systems
Desirable
- Solid understanding of testing principles and high quality software
- Experience with Kubernetes or other container orchestration systems
- Experience building infrastructure automation
- Experience working with the Linux operating system
- Experience running, monitoring and troubleshooting issues in a production always-on service
- Excellent analytical skills and communication skills. Fluent in English both verbal and written. We are a global cross-countries team so we’re extra mindful about communication
What the job involves
- GitHub is changing the way the world builds software, and we want you to help
- At GitHub, we constantly strive to create an environment that allows our employees to do the best work of their lives
- Our team is working on multiple products all aimed to enable GitHub’s engineers to deliver value in a faster and secure way
- We work on the entire delivery stack from chatops infra to PR linting and up to the actual deployments of Github’s services both to k8s and vm environments
- On this team, you’ll collaborate across functions and across teams to deliver the best possible developer experience for all engineers here at GitHub
- In this role, you will be having the opportunity to work as an engineer with a globally distributed, diverse and passionate team where you will be expected to demonstrate independence and a drive to deliver
- You will design, implement, rollout and support a highly performant, highly scalable and highly available infrastructure with your team and production managers
- This team and its parent Development Experience department are highly distributed across the globe and span a variety of diverse backgrounds
- We recognize the value this diversity brings to our teams and our products, so creating and maintaining an environment where every individual feels safe to bring their unique perspective to the challenges we're solving is important to us
- Demonstrate a strong commitment to high quality software development practices
- Actively design, develop, document and maintain our deployment infrastructure services with a product mindset
- Provide compassionate technical mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews to encourage professional and technical growth of those around you
- 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
- Work closely with other teams from around the organization
- 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
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.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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
Thomas Dohmke
(CEO)Currently a Board Member at Spice AI. Previously a Principal Director of PM at Microsoft, Co-Founder at HockeyApp / Bit Stadium GmbH and Codenauts GmbH.
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