Locations

In this role you can work from Remote, United States

Overview

GitHub Projects is building the future of team collaboration on software projects. Teams often face challenges in communicating and organizing work effectively. Our goal is to improve the software development lifecycle by creating tools that teams love to use. We are committed to fostering an environment where our employees can do the best work of their careers.

As part of this team, you’ll collaborate across functions and teams to deliver industry-leading tools that empower developers and organizations. In this role, you’ll work as an engineer on a distributed, diverse, and passionate team, where independence and a drive for results are essential. You’ll design, implement, roll out, and support highly performant, scalable, and available features alongside talented software engineering professionals.

We’re looking for creative problem-solvers and diverse thinkers who are passionate about helping teams work better together. Big vision, shared purpose, commitment to quality, curiosity, and a collaborative spirit drive our success. We embrace pair or mob programming but also lean on asynchronous communication to ensure that everyone can contribute in a way that works for them. Great products reflect the teams that build them—come join us!

Responsibilities

• Stay current with emerging technologies, security standards, and best practices to ensure high-quality software development. You will primarily be working in TypeScript (React) and Ruby. Experience with GraphQL, Elasticsearch, and MySQL is a plus.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand requirements and incorporate feedback into designs and solutions.
• Design and implement scalable, secure, and reliable features, considering performance, availability, and compliance requirements.
• Write clean, maintainable, and extensible code following best practices; participate in code reviews to ensure quality.
• Debug and resolve issues proactively using telemetry, logs, and root cause analysis.
• Contribute to project planning by estimating work, identifying dependencies, and supporting safe deployments.
• Monitor and maintain live services, responding to incidents within defined SLAs and improving system health through telemetry and scorecards.
• Support continuous improvement through instrumentation, automation, and process enhancements for reliability and efficiency.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• 4+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, 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 3+ years experience
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 2+ years experience in Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, 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
  • OR equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong familiarity with TypeScript and React including the ecosystem of tools including testing and state management.
• Solid understanding of testing principles and high quality software
• Experience with Elasticsearch or equivalent search technology
• A passion for and understanding of accessibility
• Experience with Ruby on Rails or other web frameworks

Compensation Range

The base salary range for this job is USD $97,900.00 - USD $259,900.00 /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.

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!