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Company

GitHub · 18 hours ago

Sr. Software Engineer

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$113K/yr - $299K/yr

6+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Maintain and improve automation tooling for deployment, configuration management, and system maintenance.

Implement and enhance monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to maintain system health and performance.

Help with incident response efforts, performing root cause analysis and implementing measures to prevent future incidents.

Collaborate with the team to address scalability issues, optimize system performance, and improve reliability.

Participate in on-call rotations with the team to support system availability and performance, providing off-hours support when needed.

Document systems, processes, and runbooks for efficient troubleshooting and knowledge sharing.

Conduct post-mortem analyses to drive continuous improvement in our systems and processes.

Qualification

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Site Reliability EngineeringCloud InfrastructureCI/CD PipelinesRustGoCC++C#JavaScriptRubyPythonMonitoringAlertingAutomationObservability ToolsIncident ResponseOpen-source SoftwareAI Concepts

Required

6+ 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 5+ years experience

OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ 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 Doctorate Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

OR equivalent experience.

Experience in site reliability engineering principles, including monitoring, alerting, and automation.

1+ year(s) experience with cloud infrastructure, containerization, and CI/CD pipelines.

Preferred

Experience in working with a remote, distributed team.

Experience with the Rust and Go programming language ecosystems.

Familiarity with emerging AI concepts (e.g., LLMs, embeddings) and related challenges.

Familiarity with observability tools and incident response platforms.

Knowledge of open-source software and experience contributing to open-source projects.

Benefits

Annual bonus

Stock

Competitive pay

Generous learning and growth opportunities

Excellent benefits

Company

GitHub

Glassdoor

3.8

GitHub is a software company that offers code hosting services that allow developers to build software for open-source and private projects. 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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