Senior Software Engineer GitHub
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Job Summary
As part of this team you will work on mission-critical platform services that power GitHubs global developer ecosystem. The team owns and operates high-scale distributed systems including GitHub Packages GitHub Pages Email Services and other foundational developer experience tools and platforms. These services support billions of requests stringent reliability requirements and developer workflows used worldwide.
As a Senior Software Engineer you will provide technical leadership for some of GitHubs most challenging scale reliability and operational excellence initiatives. You will lead design and implementation make sound architectural decisions mentor engineers and collaborate across GitHub and Microsoft to deliver durable platform capabilities.
Responsibilities
Lead the design development and operation of highly available distributed systems that power critical GitHub platform services.
Drive architecture and technical direction for scalable backend services and platform capabilities using modern engineering practices automation and observability.
Define and deliver improvements to service reliability performance latency capacity security and operational efficiency for mission-critical workloads.
Own complex features and services throughout their lifecycle from requirements and design reviews through implementation rollout production support and live-site excellence.
Build automation and reusable platform capabilities that reduce operational overhead and improve engineering productivity across teams.
Lead investigations of complex production issues across distributed systems storage networking and service infrastructure and drive durable corrective actions.
Partner with engineers and stakeholders across GitHub and Microsoft to align technical strategy and deliver large-scale platform investments and modernization efforts.
Mentor engineers raise engineering standards through design and code reviews and leverage AI-assisted workflows to improve software delivery testing incident response and operational excellence.
Qualifications
Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent practical experience.
7 years of professional software engineering experience designing building and operating production systems.
Expert coding skills in one or more programming languages such as C# Java Go C Python Ruby or similar with a track record of delivering maintainable production software.
Deep understanding of data structures algorithms concurrency API design and distributed systems fundamentals.
Proven experience designing and operating large-scale backend services cloud systems or platform infrastructure with high availability and reliability requirements.
Strong experience with databases caching systems messaging technologies service-oriented architectures and observability practices.
Demonstrated ability to lead ambiguous technical projects influence architecture across teams mentor engineers and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Preferred
Experience with public cloud platforms Kubernetes and containerized services in production.
Experience architecting high-throughput highly available internet-scale systems and planning for capacity resilience and disaster recovery.
Strong knowledge of observability incident management reliability engineering security and production operations.
Experience with GitHub CI/CD systems developer platforms package management ecosystems or internal platform products.
Familiarity with Go Ruby MySQL Kubernetes distributed storage service infrastructure and large-scale system migrations.
What Makes This Role Exciting
Lead work on services operating at hyperscale with billions of requests and global developer impact.
Own production systems where reliability performance security and operational excellence directly affect millions of developers.
Shape technical direction and drive end-to-end engineering outcomes across complex multi-team initiatives.
Collaborate with and influence GitHub engineering teams worldwide while mentoring other engineers.
Solve complex distributed systems concurrency scalability and reliability challenges every day.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information marital status medical condition national origin physical or mental disability political affiliation protected veteran status race religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws regulations and ordinances.
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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry citizenship color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information immigration status marital status medical condition national origin physical or mental disability political affiliation protected veteran or military status race ethnicity religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process read more about requesting accommodations.
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