Senior Software Engineer, Monolith Platform

As a software engineer at GitHub on the Monolith Platform team, you will enhance the collaboration experience at GitHub by working closely with a community of engineers with a distributed, diverse and passionate team delivering the services that millions of developers depend on. In this role you will design, prototype, implement, ship and support highly performant, resilient, and scalable solutions to support our monolith developers at GitHub.

We are looking for creative problem solvers and diverse thinkers, people who care about culture as well as customers and features. We believe that how we do things is as important as what we do. Big vision, a common purpose, passion for quality, curiosity, dedication, and investment in fun and collaboration are what lead to great results. Great products reflect the teams that build them.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test and ship high-quality technical solutions that scale acrossmultiple GitHub services and become intimately familiar with the systems youbuild and take pride in writing maintainable code.
• Providetechnical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviewsto encourage the growth of others; support teams in producing extensible andmaintainable code, ensuring integration with downstream dependencies andadherence to quality standards.
• Own and advocate for the health and quality of the systems that the team builds,including participating inon-callfor first responder rotations and live incidents.
• Design, develop, test and ship high-quality technical solutions that scale acrossmultiple GitHub services.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement innovative solutions.
• Providetechnical 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 tofacilitateseamless 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.

• 6+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or relatedtechnical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering productionsoftware 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, ComputerScience, or elated field AND 5+ years experience in SoftwareEngineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with provenexperience maintaining and delivering production software coding inlanguages 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., * 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).
• Minimum 3 years experience with cloud environments and/or Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF) concepts.

The base salary range for this job is USD $124,000.00 - USD $329,200.00 /Yr.

These pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States. An individual's base pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant. At GitHub certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role. In addition, 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.

This position will be open for a minimum of 3 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

GitHub values

• Customer-obsessed
• Ship to learn
• Growth mindset
• Own the outcome
• Better together
• Diverse and inclusive

Manager fundamentals

• Model
• Coach
• Care

Leadership principles

• Create clarity
• Generate energy
• Deliver success

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