Staff Software Engineer

Title: Staff Software Engineer

Location: Remote, United States

Engineering

Full Time

4168

Job Description:

About GitHub
As the global home for all developers, GitHub is the complete AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 150+ million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate and experiment across 420+ million repositories. repositories. With all the collaborative features of GitHub, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write faster, better code.

Locations
In this role you can work from Remote, United States

Overview

The Developer Experience (DX) and Migration department is seeking for a Staff Software Engineer to help lead the development of foundational components that power GitHub products and its migration tooling. This team is dedicated to improving the internal developer experience at GitHub, encompassing all phases of application development. Our responsibilities include optimizing the development process, delivering robust DevOps solutions, managing virtual infrastructure, and more. Additionally, we are tasked with creating the tools that facilitate customer migrations to GitHub and between different products.

Our mission is enabling GitHub developers to work efficiently, ensure our platforms remain stable, secure, and reliable and provide a seamless migration experience to our customers. This role is critical in a fast-paced environment where you can make a high-impact contribution to our product offerings.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will collaborate with a globally distributed team of managers and engineers to enhance and scale our products, ensuring an exceptional experience that meets the unique needs of our diverse customer base. This role requires extensive experience in both platform and application development, a passion for using AI tools, and the ability to leverage them in our daily operations. You should be able to flex your skill sets to create innovative solutions and drive long-term positive strategic outcomes for GitHub.
Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor team members in producing extensible and maintainable code, ensuring integration with downstream dependencies and adherence to quality standards.

• Partner with stakeholders to determine user requirements and lead discussions for technical solutions, including design and cost considerations, while ensuring system architecture meets security and compliance standards.

• Independently create and guide others in developing clear testing plans to assure solution quality, defining success metrics, and integrating customer feedback for continuous improvement.

• Drive project plans and release schedules by leveraging cross-product expertise, identifying dependencies, and coordinating with other teams to ensure timely delivery and alignment with business objectives.

• Lead efforts in applying debugging tools and telemetry to verify assumptions, proactively resolve issues, and optimize code performance and maintainability.

• Collect, classify, and analyze complex data to refine products, make informed engineering decisions, and ensure solutions are scalable and financially responsible.

• Maintain live service operations, implement solutions to complex issues, and develop playbooks for incident resolution, ensuring system health and reliability.

• Lead the development and enhancement of internal tools and processes to improve team performance and efficiency, encouraging the adoption of AI, new technologies and methodologies.

• Develop and maintain a technical roadmap that aligns with product goals, ensuring that engineering efforts are strategically prioritized, and resources are effectively allocated.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 9+ 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 8+ 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 7+ 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 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 doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ 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 equivalent experience. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience with large-scale system architecture and design, particularly in cloud-based environments, with a strong understanding of distributed systems and microservices.

• Experience working closely with product management, design, and other engineering teams to drive cross-functional projects and deliver high-quality products

• Excellent analytical skills when proactively identifying risks and balancing priorities.

Compensation Range

The base salary range for this job is USD $127,600.00 - USD $338,500.00 /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!