Senior Software Engineer

Who you are

• 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
• 1+ year(s) technical leadership experience
• 6+ years experience of Building, deploying and maintaining Distributed Services at scale
• 3+ years experience using general purpose programming languages (e.g., Go, Ruby, or Rust)
• 6+ years experience with Redis, S3 or Azure Storage
• Experiences and with Infrastructure as code, configuration management and associated tooling such as Terraform, Puppet and Ansible
• 3 years+ experience in one or more scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python, or a similar language)

What the job involves

• The Data Architecture team at GitHub owns the infrastructure and code that power Redis-based caching and Object Storage across GitHub
• We operate critical distributed systems where availability, performance, and safe change management are essential
• Our work includes improving service health and observability, diagnosing complex production failures, designing resilient deployment and traffic-management patterns, strengthening authentication and access controls, and supporting these capabilities across GitHub.com and GitHub Enterprise Server
• We’re looking for a senior infrastructure and data-focused engineer to join the team
• This engineer will lead reliability improvements, evolve monitoring and operational tooling, investigate incidents across service and platform boundaries, and deliver carefully staged changes to production systems
• The role requires strong distributed-systems judgment, hands-on operational experience, and the ability to collaborate across infrastructure, security, and product teams
• Design, develop, test and ship high-quality technical solutions that scale across multiple GitHub services
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement innovative solutions
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews to encourage the growth of others
• Own and advocate for the health and quality of the systems that the team builds, including participating in on-call and first responder rotations
• Write architecture briefs and proposals, carry out code experiments, and build prototypes to learn how we can achieve planetary scale with our systems
• 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
• Become intimately familiar with the systems you build and take pride in writing maintainable code

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
• 100% of medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums covered by GitHub for you + your dependents. (Includes gender-affirming benefits)
• 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.)