Staff Software Engineer

GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development, and they are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join their Deploys team. This role involves designing, building, and operating critical deployment infrastructure, tackling challenges related to Kubernetes orchestration, container lifecycle management, and CI/CD pipeline reliability.

Responsibilities:

• Own and evolve our dx platforms that ship code to production for thousands of services
• Write, review, and maintain code primarily in Go and Ruby, with exposure to Kubernetes, Docker, Puppet, Datadog, and cloud infrastructure (Azure/AWS)
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response, diagnosing and resolving production deployment issues under pressure
• Drive reliability improvements such as BCDR planning, compliance automation, and security upgrades
• Write architecture briefs and proposals, carry out code experiments, and build prototypes to evolve our deployment systems toward the next generation
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews to encourage the growth of others

Requirements:

• 9+ 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 8+ 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 7+ 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 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 Doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ 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 equivalent experience
• 5+ years of experience with backend systems, infrastructure, or platform engineering
• 3+ years of experience working remotely as part of a distributed software engineering team
• Experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and cloud infrastructure (Azure and/or AWS)
• Familiarity with deployment systems, CI/CD pipelines, or developer tooling at scale
• Experience with Go, Ruby, or similar languages in a production infrastructure context
• Comfort with on-call rotations and incident response in a high-availability environment
• You have a strong reliability focus and data driven approach to operational excellence
• You have excellent analytical skills as well as communication skills both verbal and written (as a distributed team, we are extra mindful about communication)
• You are a clear and effective communicator, be it when you write code, write emails, or explain complex technical issues to non-technical co-workers