Principal Software Engineer - GitHub Platform & Enterprise

Microsoft

New York, NY, United States

3 days ago

Role details

Contract type

Permanent contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Experience level

Expert

Experience required

6 years minimum

Working hours

Regular working hours

Job source

us.experteer.com

Tech stack

Java (Programming Language) JavaScript (Programming Language) Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) C Sharp (Programming Language) C++ (Programming Language) Code Review Continuous Integration Github Python (Programming Language) Git AI Platforms Information Technology

Job description

Experteer Overview As a Staff Software Engineer at GitHub, you architect and deliver high-performance systems powering collaboration for millions of developers. You will drive technical execution across distributed teams, from design to production, shaping core infrastructure for CI/CD, AI platforms, and Git operations. You’ll lead initiatives, mentor engineers, and own system health, security, and reliability at scale. This role offers impact on developer productivity and the future of enterprise tooling within a collaborative, high-excellence culture. Compensation / Benefits * Design, develop, test and ship scalable technical solutions across GitHub services * Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and code reviews to grow others * Own system health and incident response, participate in on-call rotations * Design and implement APIs for component integration * Collaborate with cross-functional teams and lead design/cost discussions * Develop comprehensive testing strategies and drive continuous improvement * Champion security across GitHub Actions with isolation for untrusted code and enterprise compliance * Improve operational excellence by enhancing reliability, monitoring, and runbooks * Drive the technical roadmap aligning with product goals and adopting new technologies Tasks * Bachelor in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in C/C++/C#/Java/JavaScript/Python OR equivalent experience Key requirements *

Requirements

drive continuous improvement * Champion security across GitHub Actions with isolation for untrusted code and enterprise compliance * Improve operational excellence by enhancing reliability, monitoring, and runbooks * Drive the technical roadmap aligning with product goals and adopting new technologies Tasks * Bachelor in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in C/C++/C#/Java/JavaScript/Python OR equivalent experience Key requirements *