GitHub · 2 weeks ago
Senior Software Engineer, Code Search
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$124K/yr - $329K/yr
6+ years expGitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development, and they are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to enhance the collaboration experience by designing and implementing scalable code search technology. The role involves working closely with a diverse team to deliver high-quality technical solutions that millions of developers depend on.
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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
Required
6+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, 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 in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
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 Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, 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 AND 2+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
OR Doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
OR equivalent experience
6+ years experience designing, building, scaling and maintaining large-scale distributed systems (large scale = user base of 100 million+)
Preferred
2+ years experience in systems programming, search index internals and information retrieval
4+ years experience designing and implementing data structures and algorithms
Experience effectively contributing to technical strategy and roadmaps with strong customer focus and data-driven approach
Passionate about fostering good engineering practices and processes with solid understanding of testing principles and high-quality software
Understanding of production system monitoring and observability with skills across network, application, caching, queuing, load-balancing, storage and distributed services layers
Benefits
Annual bonus
Stock
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
H1B Sponsorship
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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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