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.
Senior Software Engineer
Location
United States
Posted
1 day ago
Salary
Not specified
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
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
As an engineer at GitHub, you will work with a distributed, diverse and passionate team delivering the services that millions of developers rely on to build their own software.
The Dependabot team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help us create a world-class offering in the Software Composition Analysis (SCA) space. The ideal candidate will have a background in large distributed systems, high-throughput cloud architectures, and an obsession with getting genuine accuracy in squishy domains. You’re an outside-the-box thinker with an interest in the cutting edge, but a strong pragmatic streak. People tend to follow your lead because you go to sensible places.
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.
- Mentor junior engineers
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews
- 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.
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
o 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
o OR Bachelor's Degree in 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
o 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.
o OR Doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics
Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or
related field.
o OR equivalent experience.
- 6+ years of experience with relational databases (MySQL, PSQL, MSSQL, etc)
- 1+ year experience shipping production software on a big 3 cloud platform (AWS, GCP, Azure)
Preferred Qualifications:
- At least one year of experience as a non-management team lead
- Previous experience working at a senior level on a cyber security product
- working at a relatively large scale (billions of writes/day)
- building ETL pipelines and succeeding with asynchronous architectures
- building with frontier AI models
- maintaining non-obscure open source projects
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.
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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