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 100 million people, including developers from 90 of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to build amazing things together across 330+ million 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

As the global home for all developers, GitHub is the complete AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 100 million people, including developers from 90 of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to build amazing things together across 330+ million repositories. With all the collaborative features of GitHub, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write faster, better code.

The team is responsible for Blackbird, GitHub’s powerful, blazingly fast code search engine, used by millions of software developers around the world.

We are looking for a Software Engineer III with a background in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to contribute to developing and enhancing our platform to ensure its stability, scalability, and performance. The ideal candidate will have strong operational and troubleshooting skills with experience in incident management.

Stack:

• GitHub is built on various technologies, including cloud platforms, Kubernetes, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines.
• The Team works primarily in the Rust and Go programming languages.
• We utilize observability and alerting tools such as Splunk, DataDog, and PagerDuty.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve automation tooling for deployment, configuration management, and system maintenance.
• Implement and enhance monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to maintain system health and performance.
• Help with incident response efforts, performing root cause analysis and implementing measures to prevent future incidents.
• Collaborate with the team to address scalability issues, optimize system performance, and improve reliability.
• Participate in on-call rotations with the team to support system availability and performance, providing off-hours support when needed.
• Document systems, processes, and runbooks for efficient troubleshooting and knowledge sharing.
• Conduct post-mortem analyses to drive continuous improvement in our systems and processes.

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.

• Experience in site reliability engineering principles, including monitoring, alerting, and automation.

• 1+ year(s) experience with cloud infrastructure, containerization, and CI/CD pipelines.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in working with a remote, distributed team.
• Experience with the Rust and Go programming language ecosystems.
• Familiarity with emerging AI concepts (e.g., LLMs, embeddings) and related challenges.
• Familiarity with observability tools and incident response platforms.
• Knowledge of open-source software and experience contributing to open-source projects.

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 100 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!