Staff Software Engineer

Role Description

As a software engineer at GitHub within the Monolith Fitness teams, you will enhance the collaboration experience at GitHub by working closely with a community of engineers 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, resilient, and scalable solutions to support our developers working across our application stack at GitHub.

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, test and ship high-quality technical solutions that scale across multiple GitHub services.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews to encourage the growth of others.
• Support teams in producing extensible and maintainable code, ensuring integration with downstream dependencies and adherence to quality standards.
• Own and advocate for the health and quality of the systems that the team builds.
• Participate in on-call for first responder rotations and live incidents.
• Write architecture briefs and proposals and carry out code experiments.
• Automate processes to make them repeatable, consistent, and save your team time.
• 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.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and partner with stakeholders for technical solutions.
• Create and guide others in developing clear testing plans to assure solution quality, reliability, and performance.
• Define success metrics and integrate customer feedback for continuous improvement.
• Maintain executional and operational excellence within and potentially across teams/organizations.
• Apply debugging tools and telemetry to verify assumptions, proactively resolve issues, and optimize code performance and maintainability.
• Drive and support technical roadmap that aligns with product goals.

Qualifications

• 9+ years' experience in software engineering, computer science, or related technical discipline.
• Proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, Go, Ruby, Rust, Python, JavaScript, C, C++, C#, Java.
• OR associate’s degree in relevant fields AND 8+ years' experience.
• OR bachelor's degree in relevant fields AND 7+ years' experience.
• OR master's degree in relevant fields AND 5+ years' experience.
• OR doctorate in relevant fields AND 3+ years' experience.
• OR equivalent experience.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience with large-scale system architecture and design, particularly in cloud-based environments.
• Experience in one or more scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python).
• Familiarity with technologies and software platforms (e.g., Ruby, React, Go, Javascript/typescript).
• Experience with cloud environments and/or Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF) concepts.
• Experience building and operating planetary-scale API platforms.
• Familiarity with GraphQL APIs at scale.
• Experience with queuing and streaming systems like Kafka or RabbitMQ.

Benefits

• Base salary range: USD $140,000.00 - USD $372,300.00 /Yr.
• Eligibility for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock.
• Opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization.

Company Description

GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with 150 million developers and counting. We’re also home to the biggest open-source community on earth.

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.