GitHub is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Git Systems Engineering team, which runs the largest code-hosting platform in the world, part of our Platform and Infrastructure organization. Our group is responsible for the services that store and serve Git repositories, both directly to users and to other layers in the GitHub software stack. We build the various microservices, protocols, proxies, and control systems that power Git operations at GitHub and operate them at scale.
Our group is highly distributed and the right candidate will thrive in an environment of asynchronous communication. We expect you to have excellent written communication skills and be able to create working relationships with coworkers in locations around the globe.
This role is focused on wide-reaching, cross-team work to improve our git code-hosting platform. This role will be involved in the design, rollout and support of highly performant, highly scalable, and highly available services to enable the next generation of AI-driven software development.
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GitHub is changing the way the world builds software, and we want you to help lead this effort.
The Traffic Team plays a critical role in GitHub's scalability and resiliency. GitHub’s Traffic team is responsible for every packet into and out of GitHub’s edge and delivers a foundational load balancing platform for all of its services. The team’s objective is to ensure that GitHub continues to operate industry-leading services at global scale, and to ensure internal engineering teams have the tools and processes necessary to build on top of our platform with as little friction as possible.
As a Staff Software Engineer on the Traffic Team, you will work closely with a distributed, diverse, and passionate team of engineers to improve and maintain part of the platform that millions of developers worldwide rely on in their software development cycle.
The Traffic Team is highly distributed, and you will thrive in an environment of remote work and asynchronous communication. You're expected to have strong written communication skills and be able to develop working relationships with coworkers in locations around the globe. As an engineer at GitHub, you'll always be challenged to solve interesting and novel problems that have a real impact on how the world builds software.
Lead technical decision making and architecture
Design and implement scalable, reliable and performant solutions for complex problems like rate-limiting, routing, etc.
Maintain and improve the GitHub Load Balancer, and other systems related to traffic management at GitHub
Write, review, and maintain code primary in Go and Ruby & Rails
Mentor other engineers in their technical and architectural decision making
Participate in the on-call rotation, and team meetings
Required Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with HAProxy, or any other open-source Load Balancer
Experience building or maintaining planetary scale engineering systems
Experience working with a remote, distributed team
Strong written and verbal communication skills
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Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with HAProxy, or any other open-source Load Balancer
Experience building or maintaining planetary scale engineering systems
Experience working with a remote, distributed team
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Lead technical decision making and architecture
Design and implement scalable, reliable and performant solutions for complex problems like rate-limiting, routing, etc.
Maintain and improve the GitHub Load Balancer, and other systems related to traffic management at GitHub
Write, review, and maintain code primary in Go and Ruby & Rails
Mentor other engineers in their technical and architectural decision making
Participate in the on-call rotation, and team meetings
GitHub is shaping the future of software development in the age of AI agents — and search is at the heart of it. As GitHub's lexical and semantic code search engine, Blackbird powers context retrieval for business-critical experiences across the platform and our Copilot products, including Cloud Agent, Code Review, Copilot CLI, and VS Code.
We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help develop, scale, operate and extend Blackbird. This role is specifically focused on infrastructure, operations, automation, CI/CD, DX, observability, and security. You'll be part of our Copilot Agents organization, positively impacting millions of software developers and AI agents around the world who are building everything from open source to global enterprises.
We are looking for creative problem solvers and diverse thinkers, people who care about culture as well as customers and features. We believe that how we do things is as important as what we do. Big vision, a common purpose, passion for quality, curiosity, dedication, and investment in fun and collaboration are what lead to great results. Great products reflect the teams that build them.
More of the world’s development data lives on GitHub than anywhere else. Helping developers navigate and understand that data is a core part of GitHub’s mission, and an area with significant potential we have only begun to realize. We have high aspirations for how we can help developers understand and navigate code, and for making collaboration more seamless. The foundation for these efforts is our purpose-built code search engine which powers lexical and semantic code search in GitHub’s core search experience as well as GitHub’s Copilot products.
The ideal candidate has strong experience with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, reliability engineering, as well as the ability to work autonomously, learn quickly, and communicate and set technical direction. You will be working within a strong team of staff and principal engineers as well as collaborate with partner teams across the Copilot Agents organization.
As a software engineer at GitHub, you will enhance the collaboration experience at GitHub by working closely with a community of engineers and designers with a distributed, diverse and passionate team delivering the services that millions of developers depend on. In this role you will design, prototype, implement, ship and support highly performant and globally scalable code search technology with your team.
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GitHub is shaping the future of software development in the age of AI agents — and search is at the heart of it. As GitHub's lexical and semantic code search engine, Blackbird powers context retrieval for business-critical experiences across the platform and our Copilot products, including Cloud Agent, Code Review, Copilot CLI, and VS Code.
We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help develop, scale, operate and extend Blackbird. This role is specifically focused on infrastructure, operations, automation, CI/CD, DX, observability, and security. You'll be part of our Copilot Agents organization, positively impacting millions of software developers and AI agents around the world who are building everything from open source to global enterprises.
We are looking for creative problem solvers and diverse thinkers, people who care about culture as well as customers and features. We believe that how we do things is as important as what we do. Big vision, a common purpose, passion for quality, curiosity, dedication, and investment in fun and collaboration are what lead to great results. Great products reflect the teams that build them.
More of the world’s development data lives on GitHub than anywhere else. Helping developers navigate and understand that data is a core part of GitHub’s mission, and an area with significant potential we have only begun to realize. We have high aspirations for how we can help developers understand and navigate code, and for making collaboration more seamless. The foundation for these efforts is our purpose-built code search engine which powers lexical and semantic code search in GitHub’s core search experience as well as GitHub’s Copilot products.
The ideal candidate has strong experience with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, reliability engineering, as well as the ability to work autonomously, learn quickly, and communicate and set technical direction. You will be working within a strong team of staff and principal engineers as well as collaborate with partner teams across the Copilot Agents organization.
As a software engineer at GitHub, you will enhance the collaboration experience at GitHub by working closely with a community of engineers and designers with a distributed, diverse and passionate team delivering the services that millions of developers depend on. In this role you will design, prototype, implement, ship and support highly performant and globally scalable code search technology with your team.
Required Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
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We are changing the way the world builds software, and we want you to help build npm!
We're looking for a full-stack software engineer to join the npm team. This team is responsible for the open source tools that empower the JavaScript ecosystem to create, distribute & consume packages. Collaboration with both internal & external stakeholders is fundamental to this team's success & ultimately drives how we work. Our team actively contributes back to the wider open source community, including the Node.js Project, OpenJS Foundation, Open Source Security Foundation & TC39.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to work as a full-stack engineer with a distributed, diverse & passionate team delivering features & improvements to our open source projects. You’ll get to work closely with external community contributors as well as internal stakeholders from engineering, design, security, support, product & leadership. Your work will have a direct impact on the lives of millions of developers around the world.
You will write, review & maintain code & technical documentation
You will interact with our community, consumers & contributors, on a daily basis
You will collaborate closely with internal & external stakeholders to define, design & develop new features that align business objectives with end-user’s wants & needs
You will be responsible for helping triage & remediate bugs & security vulnerabilities
You will steward some of the most impactful JavaScript open-source projects, relied on by millions of developers, enabling billions of downloads &, ultimately, creating connections to the world’s largest package registry
Minimum Qualifications:
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.
Preferred Qualifications:
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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.
Preferred Qualifications:
You will write, review & maintain code & technical documentation
You will interact with our community, consumers & contributors, on a daily basis
You will collaborate closely with internal & external stakeholders to define, design & develop new features that align business objectives with end-user’s wants & needs
You will be responsible for helping triage & remediate bugs & security vulnerabilities
You will steward some of the most impactful JavaScript open-source projects, relied on by millions of developers, enabling billions of downloads &, ultimately, creating connections to the world’s largest package registry
Join us in shaping the future of project planning and tracking on GitHub. Our team enables customers to bring their ideas to life, innovate and collaborate throughout the whole project lifecycle. GitHub Planning and Tracking is a market-leading service to manage and track work alongside the code where it happens.
Learn more about GitHub’s project management tools: https://github.com/features/#features-project-management
In this role you will be a leader and multiplier within our distributed team who will not only design, prototype, implement, ship and support highly performant and inspiring user experiences, but will also help us uncover and solve tricky and foundational scaling and user-experience problems that will unlock further Copilot integration into existing and future GitHub Issues and Projects. Ideally, you are comfortable working across the stack but tilt towards the front-end and have experience shipping customer-facing AI-powered tools.
We are looking for creative problem solvers and diverse thinkers, people who care about culture as well as customers and features. We believe that how we do things is as important as what we do. Big vision, a common purpose, passion for quality, curiosity, dedication, and investment in fun and collaboration are what lead to great results. Great products reflect the teams that build them.
As part of this team you’ll work on GitHub Issues and Projects and deliver customer value with everything we do.
This job provides an opportunity to:
Build experiences that millions of people love and use every day, helping them to be more productive, collaborate more effectively and achieve their goals
Have a real impact, take on ownership of GitHub.com. Contribute to and improve our code base from day one
Foster technical growth across the team by researching new approaches, sharing insights, and guiding their practical adoption
Write, review and maintain code primarily in JavaScript (React, TypeScript) and Ruby (Rails)
Write architecture briefs and proposals, carry out code experiments, and build prototypes to learn how we can achieve planetary scale with our systems
Work closely with engineering leadership to guide technical investment and implement technical roadmaps and priorities
Coordinate with engineering and product leads to define, prioritize, and task projects that help us meet business objectives
Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews to encourage the growth of others
Required Qualifications
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 o 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.
5+ years of React experience on a senior level
Preferred Qualifications
1+ years of experience working remotely as part of a distributed software engineering team
5+ years of hands-on experience in modern web stacks (e.g. Rails, Go, React, MySQL, GraphQL)
You have a strong customer focus and data driven approach
You have excellent analytical skills as well as communication skills both verbal and written. We’re a distributed team so we’re extra mindful about communication
You are a clear and effective communicator, be it when you write code, write emails, or explain complex technical issues to non-technical co-workers
You are passionate and self-motivated, with a demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced environment
GitHub values
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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 o 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.
5+ years of React experience on a senior level
Preferred Qualifications
1+ years of experience working remotely as part of a distributed software engineering team
5+ years of hands-on experience in modern web stacks (e.g. Rails, Go, React, MySQL, GraphQL)
You have a strong customer focus and data driven approach
You have excellent analytical skills as well as communication skills both verbal and written. We’re a distributed team so we’re extra mindful about communication
You are a clear and effective communicator, be it when you write code, write emails, or explain complex technical issues to non-technical co-workers
You are passionate and self-motivated, with a demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced environment
As part of this team you’ll work on GitHub Issues and Projects and deliver customer value with everything we do.
This job provides an opportunity to:
Build experiences that millions of people love and use every day, helping them to be more productive, collaborate more effectively and achieve their goals
Have a real impact, take on ownership of GitHub.com. Contribute to and improve our code base from day one
Foster technical growth across the team by researching new approaches, sharing insights, and guiding their practical adoption
Write, review and maintain code primarily in JavaScript (React, TypeScript) and Ruby (Rails)
Write architecture briefs and proposals, carry out code experiments, and build prototypes to learn how we can achieve planetary scale with our systems
Work closely with engineering leadership to guide technical investment and implement technical roadmaps and priorities
Coordinate with engineering and product leads to define, prioritize, and task projects that help us meet business objectives
Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews to encourage the growth of others
GitHub’s Observability Delivery team builds and operates the company-wide pipelines for logs, metrics, traces, and exceptions that engineers rely on to monitor and diagnose their services. These systems handle telemetry from across GitHub at high scale. Keeping them reliable and efficient as demand grows is a constant engineering challenge.
We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer who enjoys solving challenges across software and infrastructure. You’ll write and operate services, deploy and configure observability tools, and make architectural decisions about how telemetry moves through our systems. You’ll lead work to improve pipeline capacity, reliability, and efficiency while partnering with service teams throughout GitHub. If you enjoy making critical, large-scale infrastructure dependable and easier to operate, we’d like to hear from you.
Required Qualifications
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
Preferred Qualifications
GitHub values
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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
Preferred Qualifications
GitHub is looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to join our Database Infrastructure team. We're a team that focuses on ensuring the reliability and scalability of the database fleet that powers GitHub. The Database platform is home to hundreds of terabytes of data, serving over 20 million queries per second on average across our fleet.
The team is highly distributed across geographies and time zones, and you will thrive in an environment of remote work and asynchronous communication
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GitHub values
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Preferred Qualifications:
The team is highly distributed across geographies and time zones, and you will thrive in an environment of remote work and asynchronous communication
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Maintain, extend, and operate production level Ruby and Go services powering first party client apps; write readable, testable, and maintainable code integrated with downstream dependencies.
Lead and facilitate technical design and architecture discussions across product, client app engineers, and domain service teams; propose, validate, and document architectural tradeoffs.
Translate client requirements into platform solutions; identify and drive extraction of common functionality from apps into shared platform components.
Collaborate with domain teams to extend or integrate with GitHub’s Ruby on Rails monolith when additional domain bandwidth or migrations are required.
Define testing strategies, success metrics, SLOs, and safe rollout/rollback plans; monitor telemetry and service health to drive data informed decisions.
Serve on rotation as on-call/first-responder, lead incident response and postmortems, and implement long‑term reliability improvements.
Mentor engineers, participate in code reviews, and champion engineering excellence, automation, and observability across the platform.
Identify cross team dependencies, coordinate workstreams, and resolve conflicts to ensure solutions meet security, performance, and scalability needs.
Required qualifications
Preferred qualifications
Hands-on experience with Go and/or Ruby (Ruby on Rails) in production.
Familiarity with GraphQL and RPC frameworks such as Twirp.
Experience building platforms or infrastructure that support multiple client surfaces (mobile, desktop, CLI).
Experience extracting shared libraries/platforms from application codebases and driving adoption.
Proven ability to work within and extend large existing codebases (e.g., monoliths).
Experience defining SLOs, telemetry, and observability tooling.
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Required qualifications
Preferred qualifications
Hands-on experience with Go and/or Ruby (Ruby on Rails) in production.
Familiarity with GraphQL and RPC frameworks such as Twirp.
Experience building platforms or infrastructure that support multiple client surfaces (mobile, desktop, CLI).
Experience extracting shared libraries/platforms from application codebases and driving adoption.
Proven ability to work within and extend large existing codebases (e.g., monoliths).
Experience defining SLOs, telemetry, and observability tooling.
Maintain, extend, and operate production level Ruby and Go services powering first party client apps; write readable, testable, and maintainable code integrated with downstream dependencies.
Lead and facilitate technical design and architecture discussions across product, client app engineers, and domain service teams; propose, validate, and document architectural tradeoffs.
Translate client requirements into platform solutions; identify and drive extraction of common functionality from apps into shared platform components.
Collaborate with domain teams to extend or integrate with GitHub’s Ruby on Rails monolith when additional domain bandwidth or migrations are required.
Define testing strategies, success metrics, SLOs, and safe rollout/rollback plans; monitor telemetry and service health to drive data informed decisions.
Serve on rotation as on-call/first-responder, lead incident response and postmortems, and implement long‑term reliability improvements.
Mentor engineers, participate in code reviews, and champion engineering excellence, automation, and observability across the platform.
Identify cross team dependencies, coordinate workstreams, and resolve conflicts to ensure solutions meet security, performance, and scalability needs.
GitHub's Pull Request Platform powers one of the most critical developer workflows in the world. Every pull request operation across GitHub.com, the API, and GitHub Enterprise Server depends on the systems this team owns. The team is responsible for pull request state, mergeability, indexing, automation, and platform reliability, serving tens of millions of developers who collaborate, review code, and ship software every day.
We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to help lead Pull Request Platform through a period of significant technical investment. The team is strengthening production reliability in a complex, high-traffic area, contributing to GitHub's service-extraction efforts, and evolving its infrastructure to meet growing scale requirements. You'll join our Core Productivity organization and directly influence the reliability and performance of one of GitHub's most visible and heavily used features.
As a staff engineer, you'll be a hands-on technical leader who shapes architecture, guides complex initiatives, and helps the team turn ambiguous problems into durable solutions. You'll work across Git operations, databases, search, APIs, and asynchronous workflows while helping define the platform's longer-term technical direction.
This work blends distributed systems experience with pragmatic execution — moving between writing and reviewing code, leading architectural decisions, improving production systems, and building alignment across organizational boundaries. You'll partner closely with Pull Request Experience, Repositories Platform, Git Systems, and other teams across GitHub while mentoring engineers and helping the team grow its technical practices.
Lead the architecture, design, implementation, and evolution of systems that power pull requests at GitHub scale.
Help define and execute the Pull Request Platform technical roadmap, aligning engineering investments with GitHub’s reliability, scalability, and service-extraction priorities.
Solve complex technical challenges spanning Git operations, databases, search and indexing, APIs, and asynchronous workflows.
Design, develop, test, and ship maintainable solutions that operate across multiple GitHub services.
Own and advocate for the health of the team’s production systems, including participating in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident improvements.
Set high standards for operational safety, testing, observability, deployment practices, and production rollouts.
Write architecture briefs and technical proposals, conduct code experiments, and clearly communicate tradeoffs and operational risks.
Partner across engineering teams to define scalable interfaces, reduce system friction, and lead initiatives such as service extraction and platform hardening.
Provide technical leadership through mentorship, pairing, code and design reviews, and guidance that helps other engineers deliver extensible, maintainable systems.
Improve engineering and operational excellence through automation, tooling, and standardization across testing, deployment, and operations.
Minimum Qualifications:
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
Preferred Qualifications:
1+ years' experience developing software in Ruby and/or Go.
1+ years’ experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems or platform infrastructure with demanding reliability and performance requirements.
1+ years’ experience diagnosing and improving the scalability, observability, resilience, and performance of high-traffic production systems.
Experience with monolith decomposition, service extraction, or other large-scale architecture migrations.
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\r\n\r\nLeadership principles
\r\n\r\nMinimum Qualifications:
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
Preferred Qualifications:
1+ years' experience developing software in Ruby and/or Go.
1+ years’ experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems or platform infrastructure with demanding reliability and performance requirements.
1+ years’ experience diagnosing and improving the scalability, observability, resilience, and performance of high-traffic production systems.
Experience with monolith decomposition, service extraction, or other large-scale architecture migrations.
Lead the architecture, design, implementation, and evolution of systems that power pull requests at GitHub scale.
Help define and execute the Pull Request Platform technical roadmap, aligning engineering investments with GitHub’s reliability, scalability, and service-extraction priorities.
Solve complex technical challenges spanning Git operations, databases, search and indexing, APIs, and asynchronous workflows.
Design, develop, test, and ship maintainable solutions that operate across multiple GitHub services.
Own and advocate for the health of the team’s production systems, including participating in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident improvements.
Set high standards for operational safety, testing, observability, deployment practices, and production rollouts.
Write architecture briefs and technical proposals, conduct code experiments, and clearly communicate tradeoffs and operational risks.
Partner across engineering teams to define scalable interfaces, reduce system friction, and lead initiatives such as service extraction and platform hardening.
Provide technical leadership through mentorship, pairing, code and design reviews, and guidance that helps other engineers deliver extensible, maintainable systems.
Improve engineering and operational excellence through automation, tooling, and standardization across testing, deployment, and operations.