Senior Software Engineer

This job is with GitHub, an inclusive employer and a member of myGwork – the largest global platform for the LGBTQ+ business community. Please do not contact the recruiter directly. 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

GitHub is growing its Engineering team and we're seeking experienced professionals to elevate our Physical Infrastructure efforts. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design, build, and enhance physical infrastructure frameworks and tools, ensuring scalable and efficient data centers. The ideal candidate will be a key contributor to enhancing GitHub's physical infrastructure, ensuring scalability and efficiency while gaining valuable experience in data center architecture, hardware innovation, and cross-functional collaboration to support developers globally.

As an Infrastructure Engineer, you will report into GitHub's larger Platform organization. Platform is a distributed group that owns internal services, tools, and infrastructure used to build, deploy, and operate the services that make up GitHub. Built in our own data centers with a variety of open source software, our services are used by dozens of engineering teams across the company. We strive to act as a productivity multiplier by offering our customers the tools they need to deliver their services, allowing them to focus more on product.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and enhance physical infrastructure systems, frameworks, and tools to manage and maintain data centers, ensuring systems are scalable and efficient while automating processes to improve performance.
• Lead capacity planning and design initiatives, predict growth trends, and ensure infrastructure is properly scaled to handle increasing demands.
• Implement and maintain robust security measures, conduct vulnerability assessments, and ensure compliance with relevant regulatory standards, focusing on the unique requirements of physical infrastructure.
• Establish observability and monitoring systems to proactively identify and address performance gaps or outages and execute disaster recovery and failure test scenarios specific to physical infrastructure.
• Act as a senior point of contact for diagnosing and resolving infrastructure issues promptly to minimize downtime, contribute to incident management processes, and implement preventive measures to avoid future incidents.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including software engineers and data center vendors, to troubleshoot issues, optimize infrastructure performance, and identify opportunities for new features and improvements in the space.
• Lead initiatives within the open-source community to enhance existing tools, develop new features, and share best practices, with a focus on physical infrastructure technologies.
• Lead the design and integration of physical hardware at the rack/chassis level, ensuring compatibility and efficiency in data center deployments
• Participate in an on-call rotation and quickly respond to issues and work to prevent them in the future
  
  

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 6+ years' technical experience in one or more infrastructure domains (e.g., container orchestration engineering, platform engineering, database engineering, software engineering, network engineering, systems administration, or related field),
• OR bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years' technical experience in infrastructure domains (e.g., container orchestration engineering, platform engineering, database engineering, software engineering, network engineering, systems administration, or related field),
• OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years' experience with physical hardware design at the rack/chassis level in the context of datacenter deployments.
• 2+ years' experience deploying infrastructure in a data center.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• 1+ year(s) technical leadership experience
• 3+ years' experience in one or more scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python, or a similar language)
• 3+ years' experience using general purpose programming languages (e.g., Go, Ruby, or a similar language)
• Extensive experience in designing and deploying physical infrastructure in data centers, and proficiency in scripting languages like Bash or Python
  
  

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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