Software Engineer - GitHub Actions

• Design, develop, test and ship high-quality technical solutions across GitHub Actions services.
• Participate in code reviews, pairing sessions, and technical discussions that raise the quality bar for the team.
• Own and advocate for the health and quality of the systems that the team builds, including participating in on-call for first responder rotations and live incidents.
• Design and implement APIs to facilitate seamless integration between software components.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and contribute to technical discussions, including design and trade-off considerations.
• Contribute to comprehensive testing strategies, define success metrics, and incorporate customer feedback to drive continuous improvement.
• Contribute to operational excellence by improving system reliability and maintaining monitoring, alerting, and runbooks across Actions services.
• Participate in technical planning that aligns with product goals, helping ensure engineering efforts are appropriately prioritized.

• Professional experience in software engineering, computer science, or a related technical discipline, with demonstrated experience coding and shipping production software.
• Hands-on proficiency in one or more general-purpose programming languages such as C, C++, C#, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python.
• A degree in Computer Science, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Computer Engineering, or a related field - or equivalent professional experience., * Experience designing or operating distributed systems, container orchestration, or cloud infrastructure.
• Experience building or operating CI/CD systems (directly relevant to the Actions domain).
• Experience designing and implementing APIs for service-to-service integration.
• Experience participating in on-call rotations, live-site response, or service-reliability practices (monitoring, alerting, runbooks).

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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