About GitHub

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Locations

In this role you can work from Remote, United States

Overview

GitHub is changing the way the world builds software, and we want you to help lead this effort.

The API Gateway plays a critical role in GitHub's scalability and resiliency. The API Gateway team is responsible for evolving and operating this critical component and help elevate standards and best practices for traffic management at GitHub. The team’s objective is to ensure that GitHub continues to operate industry-leading services at global scale, and to ensure internal engineering teams have the tools and processes necessary to build on top of our platform with as little friction as possible.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Gateway Team, you will work closely with a distributed, diverse, and passionate team of engineers to improve and maintain part of the platform that millions of developers worldwide rely on in their software development cycle.

The Gateway team is highly distributed, and you will thrive in an environment of remote work and asynchronous communication. You're expected to have strong written communication skills and be able to develop working relationships with coworkers in locations around the globe. As an engineer at GitHub, you'll always be challenged to solve interesting and novel problems that have a real impact on how the world builds software.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical decision making and architecture.

• Design and implement scalable, reliable and performant solutions for complex problems like rate-limiting, routing, etc.

• Maintain and improve the API Gateway, and other systems related to traffic management at GitHub.

• Write, review, and maintain code primary in Go and Ruby & Rails.

• Mentor other engineers in their technical and architectural decision making.

• Participate in the on-call rotation, and team meetings.

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

• 4+ years building and supporting large, high traffic applications at scale within platform/infrastructure domains.

• 4+ years supporting and building cloud native workloads in Azure, AWS or Google Cloud.

• 2+ years experience maintaining an API Gateway.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with HAProxy, or any other open source Load Balancer.

• Experience building or maintaining planetary scale engineering systems.

• Experience working with a remote, distributed team.

• Passionate about fostering good API Design practices and processes.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

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!