GitHub · 1 week ago
Software Engineer III
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$108K/yr - $286K/yr
4+ years expGitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development, and they are seeking a Software Engineer III to help lead their efforts in building and maintaining their internal compute platform. The role involves collaborating with a distributed team to improve the reliability and automation of GitHub’s services while solving complex infrastructure problems at scale.
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Responsibilities
Contribute to the design and implementation of reliable, performant, and secure systems that support GitHub’s compute platform (e.g. hypervisor, lifecycle, VM runtime, automation, image pipelines, and configuration tooling)
Build features and automation that reduce operational toil and increase the predictability and safety of platform operations
Maintain and improve existing compute and lifecycle services, including GC2 components, fleet management workflows, and base OS/container image pipelines
Write, review, and maintain high-quality code while following GitHub engineering best practices
Collaborate with partner engineering teams to help them adopt platform capabilities, debug issues, and integrate with Platform APIs and workflows
Participate in on-call rotations for the services and systems owned by the organization, contributing to incident response, reliability improvements, and follow-up work
Contribute to clear, thoughtful documentation and to asynchronous communication patterns that support a distributed engineering environment
Qualification
Required
4+ years' technical experience in infrastructure domains (e.g., container orchestration engineering, platform engineering, database engineering, software engineering, network engineering, systems administration, or related field)
OR bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field AND 2+ years' technical experience in infrastructure domains (e.g., container orchestration engineering, platform engineering, database engineering, software engineering, network engineering, systems administration, or related field)
OR equivalent experience
2+ years building and supporting large, high traffic applications at scale within platform/infrastructure domains
2+ years supporting and building cloud native workloads in Azure, AWS or Google Cloud
Preferred
4+ years' experience with Azure, or any other Cloud Provider
Experience building or maintaining planetary scale engineering systems
Experience working with a remote, distributed team
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Demonstrated expertise in working with cloud environments and Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF) concepts, which is beneficial for managing and optimizing cloud-based infrastructure
Benefits
Annual bonus
Stock
Competitive pay
Generous learning and growth opportunities
Excellent benefits
Company
GitHub
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.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$350MKey Investors
Sequoia CapitalAndreessen Horowitz
2018-06-03Acquired
2015-07-29Series B· $250M
2015-06-19Secondary Market
Leadership Team
PJ Hyett
Co-Founder
Kyle Daigle
Chief Operating Officer
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