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GitHub · 23 hours ago

Software Engineer III

GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development. The GitHub Security Products team is on a mission to secure the world’s software, building tools to find and fix code vulnerabilities and credential leaks.

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Responsibilities

Design, develop, test and ship high-quality technical solutions that scale across multiple GitHub services
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement innovative solutions
Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews to encourage the growth of others
Own and advocate for the health and quality of the systems that the team builds, including participating in on-call and first responder rotations
Write architecture briefs and proposals, carry out code experiments, and build prototypes to learn how we can achieve planetary scale with our systems
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
Become intimately familiar with the systems you build and take pride in writing maintainable code

Qualification

Software EngineeringC/C++/C#/JavaScriptGo/Ruby/Rust/PythonScripting languagesCI/CD tools

Required

4+ 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 3+ years experience
OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 2+ 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 equivalent experience

Preferred

Minimum 2 years experience in one or more scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python, or a similar language)
Minimum 2 years experience using general purpose programming languages (e.g., Go, Ruby, or a similar language)

Benefits

Annual bonus
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Generous learning and growth opportunities

Company

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.

H1B Sponsorship

GitHub has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (26)
2024 (17)
2023 (14)
2022 (20)
2021 (20)
2020 (10)

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$350M
Key Investors
Sequoia CapitalAndreessen Horowitz
2018-06-03Acquired
2015-07-29Series B· $250M
2015-06-19Secondary Market

Leadership Team

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PJ Hyett
Co-Founder
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Kyle Daigle
Chief Operating Officer
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