GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development, and they are seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Enterprise Cloud Platform team. In this role, you will build and operate the infrastructure and automation that powers GitHub's regional deployments, working to enhance operational efficiency and service reliability.
Responsibilities:
- Build and improve provisioning workflows for regional GitHub Enterprise Cloud deployments
- Own platform services and automation across networking, compute, storage, DNS, and service onboarding
- Design and operate capacity management systems for multi-region Azure environments
- Partner with adjacent teams to bring GitHub services into regional environments safely and consistently
- Drive deployment safety and CI/CD quality for regional service onboarding pipelines
- Improve operational tooling, validation, and incident response for regional deployments
- Lead technical investments that reduce operational toil, improve deployment velocity, and increase confidence in regional expansions
- Contribute to the reliability, scalability, and lifecycle management of the platform
- Provide operational support for regional infrastructure and lead investigation of critical issues impacting availability or provisioning
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
- 3+ years Experience with infrastructure-as-code, provisioning automation, or platform orchestration (e.g., Terraform, Bicep, Pulumi)
- 2+ years of demonstrated ability to effectively leverage AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, AI code review) to improve productivity, code quality, and engineering workflows
- 5+ years of hands-on On-call experience, running post incident retrospectives and driving systemic improvement and repairs through
- Experience with multi-region or data-residency-aware architectures at scale
- Experience with capacity planning, quota management, or cloud resource lifecycle
- Experience with incident response and production operations at scale