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GitHub · 2 days ago

Senior Software Engineer, Dependabot

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$104K/yr - $277K/yr

6+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Lead technical decision making and architecture

Architect and implement highly available distributed systems

Mentor other engineers in their technical and architectural decision making

Document the systems you help architect, build, and maintain

Maintain and improve APIs used internally at GitHub

Write, review, and maintain code primarily in Ruby, Go, JavaScript, and Python.

Be a role model to create a culture of psychological safety both within the team and cross-team, where differing views can be shared and heard

Qualification

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Software DevelopmentREST APIsRubyRuby on RailsGitGitHubOpen source softwareCommunity curationWorking with distributed teamsDeveloper toolsStatic analysis toolsDynamic analysis toolsSecurity best practicesCommunicationAttention to detailPlanningOrganizationProblem-solvingInterpersonal skills

Required

6+ years of experience designing, developing, and shipping high-quality software at scale.

3+ years experience building and/or consuming REST-style APIs

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Experience with Ruby and Ruby on Rails

Preferred

Strong written and verbal communication skills, attention to detail, planning, and organization.

A passion for fostering good engineering practices, tools, and processes

Highly developed organizational, people, and process skills

Ability to create a shared understanding of decision making, direction, priorities, and progress between the team, the org, and the broader company

Experience with Git and GitHub

Experience with open source software, maintainers, and community curation.

Working with distributed teams and operating effectively across multiple timezones

Building developer tools

Exposure to and/or advocacy of static/dynamic analysis tools or security best practices

Benefits

Annual bonus

Stock options

Company

GitHub

Glassdoor

3.8

GitHub provides code hosting services that allow developers to build software for open-source and private projects in organizations. It is a sub-organization of Microsoft.

Founded in 2008

San Francisco, California, USA

501-1,000 employees

https://github.com

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