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Senior Software Engineer

GitHub71 open roles

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$124,000 – $329,200 a year
Where
United States
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Early applications get read.

11.8% of postings close within 7 days. Measured by our own scanner across the market. GitHub postings stay open a median of 52 days.

Share of postings closed within
  1. 2.1%1 day
  2. 4.4%3 days
  3. 11.8%7 days
  4. 18.5%14 days
  5. 35.5%30 days
  6. 45.1%60 days
This job: posted 64 days ago

GitHub median: 52 days open

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About GitHub

GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development — powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 180 million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate, and more than 77,000 organisations have adopted GitHub Copilot.

Locations

In this role you can work from Remote, United States

Overview

The Developer Experience (DX) organization is seeking a Senior Engineer to join the Build and Test team, part of the group responsible for the foundational systems that power GitHub's internal development workflows. DX focuses on improving how GitHub engineers build, test, and ship software across the company—operating at significant scale and complexity. Our work spans CI/CD platforms, developer tooling, virtualized infrastructure, and the paved paths that enable teams to move quickly while maintaining reliability and security.

The Build and Test team owns the core build and continuous integration systems used across GitHub. We provide the tooling, services, and operational support that allow engineers to deliver changes to production safely and efficiently. This includes running highly available, company-wide CI platforms; partnering closely with application and platform teams to improve reliability and performance; and continuously reducing friction in the developer workflow. The team plays a critical role in maintaining trust in GitHub's build and test infrastructure while balancing speed, scale, and stability.

GitHub's continued growth brings both opportunity and complexity. As a Senior Engineer in this role, you will work within a distributed team operating mission-critical systems in a fast-moving environment. You'll work closely with engineers across the company to improve CI reliability, reduce test flakiness, respond to incidents, and evolve our platforms to meet the needs of a rapidly scaling organization. This role blends technical leadership, deep engineering expertise, and operational ownership, with a direct impact on the daily experience of GitHub engineers and the quality of the products used by millions of developers worldwide.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with engineering teams, product management, customers, and engineering leadership to align on and understand the problems we want to solve.
  • Drive technical solutions to GitHub's most critical problems, often unblocking others through design guidance and hands-on contribution, via real-time conversations in Slack or Zoom and with asynchronous communication in GitHub Issues, PRs, Discussions, and Projects.
  • Communicate effectively to stakeholders and leadership on technical direction, progress, and risks.
  • Partner across the team and with stakeholders, building relationships, and identifying technical opportunities and areas of improvement.
  • Driving good architectural design outcomes, secure and resilient systems, and quality code.
  • Iteratively shipping features and bug fixes, balancing speed to market with future velocity.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

  • 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

Preferred Qualifications:

  • A bias for action: you take ownership, communicate clearly across roles, and move things forward without waiting for permission
  • Curiosity and a growth mindset: you seek out unfamiliar problems and enjoy learning new tools, languages, and domains
  • Resilience in ambiguity: you stay effective when requirements are unclear or priorities shift
  • 3+ years of experience working remotely as part of a distributed software engineering team
  • Experience with one or more general-purpose languages (e.g., Go, Ruby) in a production context, and a willingness to learn new ones
  • Experience building and operating production infrastructure on a major cloud platform, with exposure to infrastructure-as-code and container orchestration tooling

Compensation Range

The base salary range for this job is USD $124,000.00 - USD $329,200.00 /Yr.

These pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States. An individual's base pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant. At GitHub certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role.

This position will be open for a minimum of 3 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

GitHub values

  • Customer-obsessed
  • Ship to learn
  • Growth mindset
  • Own the outcome
  • Better together
  • Diverse and inclusive

Manager fundamentals

  • Model
  • Coach
  • Care

Leadership principles

  • Create clarity
  • Generate energy
  • Deliver success

Who We Are

GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with 150 million developers and counting. We’re also home to the biggest open-source community on earth (and 99% of the world’s software has open-source code in its DNA). Many of the apps and programs you use every day are built on GitHub.

Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!). At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We’re remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are—because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms.

Join us, and let’s change the world, together.

EEO Statement

GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don't discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!

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