GitHub · 1 week ago
Senior Software Engineer, Client Apps Platform
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$124K/yr - $329K/yr
2+ years expGitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development, and they are seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Client Apps Platform team. In this role, you will build and operate Ruby and Go services, drive architecture and cross-team design, and enhance shared platform capabilities to support client teams.
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Responsibilities
Maintain, extend, and operate production level Ruby and Go services powering first party client apps; write readable, testable, and maintainable code integrated with downstream dependencies
Lead and facilitate technical design and architecture discussions across product, client app engineers, and domain service teams; propose, validate, and document architectural tradeoffs
Translate client requirements into platform solutions; identify and drive extraction of common functionality from apps into shared platform components
Collaborate with domain teams to extend or integrate with GitHub’s Ruby on Rails monolith when additional domain bandwidth or migrations are required
Define testing strategies, success metrics, SLOs, and safe rollout/rollback plans; monitor telemetry and service health to drive data informed decisions
Serve on rotation as on-call/first-responder, lead incident response and postmortems, and implement long‑term reliability improvements
Mentor engineers, participate in code reviews, and champion engineering excellence, automation, and observability across the platform
Identify cross team dependencies, coordinate workstreams, and resolve conflicts to ensure solutions meet security, performance, and scalability needs
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
Demonstrated experience in software and system design for scalable, reliable services
Strong written and verbal communication skills with experience facilitating cross-team technical discussions
Proven experience maintaining and operating live services, including monitoring, debugging, and incident response
Preferred
Hands-on experience with Go and/or Ruby (Ruby on Rails) in production
Familiarity with GraphQL and RPC frameworks such as Twirp
Experience building platforms or infrastructure that support multiple client surfaces (mobile, desktop, CLI)
Experience extracting shared libraries/platforms from application codebases and driving adoption
Proven ability to work within and extend large existing codebases (e.g., monoliths)
Experience defining SLOs, telemetry, and observability tooling
Benefits
Annual bonus
Stock
Certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role
Generous learning and growth opportunities
Excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are
Remote-first
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
2018-06-04Acquired
2015-07-29Series B· $250M
2015-06-19Secondary Market
Leadership Team
Kyle Daigle
Chief Operating Officer, GitHub & Chief Marketing Officer of Developer, Microsoft
Luke Hoban
VP, Software Engineering - GitHub Copilot
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