Senior Software Engineer

GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Gateway Team, you will lead technical decision making and architecture, design and implement scalable solutions, and maintain the API Gateway to ensure efficient traffic management for millions of developers worldwide.

Responsibilities:

• Lead technical decision making and architecture
• Design and implement scalable, reliable and performant solutions for complex problems like rate-limiting, routing, etc
• Maintain and improve the API Gateway, and other systems related to traffic management at GitHub
• Write, review, and maintain code primary in Go and Ruby & Rails
• Mentor other engineers in their technical and architectural decision making
• Participate in the on-call rotation, and team meetings

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 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
• 4+ years building and supporting large, high traffic applications at scale within platform/infrastructure domains
• 4+ years supporting and building cloud native workloads in Azure, AWS or Google Cloud
• 2+ years experience maintaining an API Gateway
• Experience with HAProxy, or any other open source Load Balancer
• Experience building or maintaining planetary scale engineering systems
• Experience working with a remote, distributed team
• Passionate about fostering good API Design practices and processes
• Strong written and verbal communication skills