About GitHub: As the global home for all developers, GitHub is the complete AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 100 million people, including developers from 90 of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to build amazing things together across 330+ million repositories. With all the collaborative features of GitHub, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write faster, better code.
Locations: In this role you can work from Remote, United States
Overview:

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 inspiring user experiences with your team.

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.

Responsibilities:

Design, develop 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.
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.

Qualifications:

Required Qualifications

Three or more years of experience as a software engineer or related field Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent work experience
2+ years of experience delivering high availability, enterprise grade services, including monitoring, observability and diagnosing problems
Four or more years of experience in two or more of the following skill sets:

Ruby (Rails)
Go and related tooling
JavaScript (React, TypeScript, Relay)
MySQL and database management
NodeJS development
Design and build REST and/or GraphQL APIs
Experience with CI/CD tools and automated pipelines

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Git, GitHub , Actions & workflow platform for version control and collaborative development.
Internals of web development frameworks, tools, and client performance optimization.
Building developer tools and pipelines that streamline and automate software lifecycle, including development, testing and releasing, with focus on speed, reliability and scalability.
Excellent written and verbal communication via async collaboration, documentation, and visibility of work
Hands-on experience with distributed systems at global scale.
Experience working with a remote, distributed team.
Familiarity with SQL, Kusto Query Language, general database knowledge, Kubernetes, and/or cloud-native concepts
Passionate about fostering effective Engineering practices and processes and contribute to open source software, engage with maintainers, and actively participate in community curation.

Compensation Range: USD $90,700.00 - USD $240,500.00 /Yr.

In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role.

These pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States. An individual's base pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant. At GitHub certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role.
GitHub Leadership Principles: Customer Obsessed - Trust by Default - Ship to Learn - Own the Outcome - Growth Mindset - Global Product, Global Team - Anything is Possible - Practice Kindness
Who We Are: GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with 100 million developers and counting. We’re also home to the biggest open-source community on earth (and 99% of the world’s software has open-source code in its DNA). Many of the apps and programs you use every day are built on GitHub.
Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!). At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We’re remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are—because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms.
Join us, and let’s change the world, together.
EEO Statement: GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don't discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!

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