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# Senior Software Engineer, Code Search

- **Company:** GitHub
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $329,200.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, C (Programming Language), Java (Programming Language), JavaScript (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Data Analysis, Audit Trail, C Sharp (Programming Language), C++ (Programming Language), Cloud Computing, Computer Engineering, Continuous Integration, Data Integration, DevOps, Programming Tools, Distributed Systems, Github, Information Retrieval, Python (Programming Language), Reliability Engineering, Ruby, Software Engineering, System Programming, Rust (Programming Language), Load Balancing, Caching, Information Technology, Data Analytics, GXP, Golang
- **Published:** August 16, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.sanfranciscogigs.com/job.asp?id=3355969699&tx=KK9393FFU&pt=1&aff=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54&utm_source=Job%20Feed&utm_medium=textkernel&utm_campaign=DE&utm_term=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54

## About the Role

The ideal candidate has strong experience with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, reliability engineering, as well as the ability to work autonomously, learn quickly, and communicate and set technical direction. You will be working within a strong team of staff and principal engineers as well as collaborate with partner teams across the Copilot Agents organization.

As a software engineer at GitHub, you will enhance the collaboration experience at GitHub by working closely with a community of engineers and designers 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 and globally scalable code search technology with your team., * 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., * Understanding of production system monitoring and observability with skills across network, application, caching, queuing, load-balancing, storage and distributed services layers.
 * Passionate about fostering good engineering practices and processes with solid understanding of testing principles and high-quality software.
 * 2+ years experience in systems programming, search index internals and information retrieval.

## Description

* Own and advocate for the health and quality of the systems that the team builds, including participating in on-call and first responder rotations.
 * Drives efforts to collect, classify, and analyze data on a range of metrics (e.g., health of the system, where bugs might be occurring).
 * Drives the refinement of products through data analytics, and makes informed decisions in engineering products through data integration.
 * Considers and drives comprehensive application of automation within production and deployment of a product.
 * Runs code in simulated or other non-production environments to confirm functionality and error-free runtime for products.
 * Improves development quality, development velocity, and team performance through modeling contributions to improvement of developer tooling.
 * Drives efforts to ensure the correct processes are followed to achieve a high degree of security, privacy, safety, and accessibility.
 * Creates and ensures the presence of visible evidence (e.g., audit logs, system reports, security compliance) to demonstrate compliance for products.
 * Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features, incorporates service health indicators (e.g., SLOs) to prioritize work focused on, and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive collaboration on the workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.
 * 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.
 * Design, develop, test and ship high-quality technical solutions that scale across multiple GitHub services.

## About GitHub

GitHub is **_where people build software_**. More than 150 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 420 million projects.


**Tech Stack:** Ruby, Ruby on Rails
**Industries:** Enterprise Software, Platform

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