Senior Software Engineer

GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development, empowering developers to build and deliver secure software. The Senior Software Engineer will design, develop, and scale GitHub's Code Scanning feature, collaborating with cross-functional teams and providing technical leadership to ensure high-quality and secure software solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, test and ship high-quality technical solutions that scale across multiple GitHub services
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement innovative solutions
• Provide technical 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 GraphQL APIs and REST endpoints that serve as building blocks for product teams to build new features
• Maintain and extend Ruby on Rails applications and Go services
• Drive improvements to service reliability through instrumentation, monitoring, and SLO management
• Lead discussions for technical solutions within the team's area of responsibility and create proposals for architecture
• Drive identification of dependencies during the design of products, applications, services, or platforms
• Participate in incident response, conduct root cause analysis, and contribute to postmortems
• Drive efforts to integrate instrumentation for gathering telemetry data on system behavior such as performance, reliability, availability, and usage
• 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

Requirements:

• 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
• Prefer candidates based out of East Coast
• 2+ years of experience in building end to end applications leveraging agentic AI
• building web applications in either Ruby or Go
• developing with relational databases
• developing on large Ruby on Rails or React applications
• distributed systems and operating software at scale