Senior Software Engineer

GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development, powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software. The Senior Software Engineer will work on the Dependabot team to create a world-class offering in the Software Composition Analysis space, focusing on delivering high-quality technical solutions and mentoring junior engineers.

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
• Mentor junior engineers
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews
• 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 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

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
• 6+ years of experience with relational databases (MySQL, PSQL, MSSQL, etc)
• 1+ year experience shipping production software on a big 3 cloud platform (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Previous experience working at a senior level on a cyber security product
• building ETL pipelines and succeeding with asynchronous architectures
• building with frontier AI models
• maintaining non-obscure open source projects