Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GitHub is a developer platform company seeking a Senior Software Engineer for its Data Architecture team. The role focuses on building and operating Redis-based caching and object storage infrastructure, improving reliability and observability, investigating production incidents, and delivering scalable distributed-system solutions. The engineer will also provide technical leadership and collaborate across infrastructure, security, and product teams.
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
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews to encourage the growth of others
- 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
Skills
- 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
- 1+ year(s) technical leadership experience
- 6+ years experience of Building, deploying and maintaining Distributed Services at scale
- 3+ years experience using general purpose programming languages (e.g., Go, Ruby, or Rust)
- 6+ years experience with Redis, S3 or Azure Storage
- Experiences and with Infrastructure as code, configuration management and associated tooling such as Terraform, Puppet and Ansible
- 3 years+ experience in one or more scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python, or a similar language)
Benefits
- Annual bonus
- Stock
- Sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role
- Remote-first work
- Competitive pay
- Generous learning and growth opportunities
- Excellent benefits
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