About the Role
As a Software Engineer II at GitHub, you will play a crucial role in enhancing the collaboration experience on our platform. You will work closely with a diverse and passionate team of engineers and designers to deliver services that millions of developers depend on. Your responsibilities will include designing, prototyping, implementing, shipping, and supporting highly performant and inspiring user experiences.
Responsibilities
- Design and Develop: Create high-quality technical solutions that scale across multiple GitHub services.
- Collaboration: Work with cross-functional teams to define and implement innovative solutions.
- Technical Leadership: Provide mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews to encourage the growth of others.
- System Health: Own and advocate for the health and quality of the systems that the team builds, including participating in on-call and first responder rotations.
- Innovation: Write architecture briefs and proposals, carry out code experiments, and build prototypes to learn how we can achieve planetary scale with our systems.
- API Design: Design and implement APIs to facilitate seamless integration between software components.
- CI/CD: Utilize CI/CD tools to set up automated pipelines for continuous integration and delivery.
Qualifications
Required
- 2+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline.
- Proven experience maintaining production software coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python.
Preferred
- Experience with Git and GitHub.
- Experience using Azure technologies.
- Experience with front-end frameworks like React.js.
- Understanding of REST principles and experience with backend APIs.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Passionate about healthy team culture and collaboration.
- Comfortable working transparently in an agile environment and soliciting feedback from peers.
Compensation
The base salary range for this position is $75,000 to $198,900 per year. Compensation is based on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant. Additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock, are allocated based on individual impact in the role.
GitHub Values
- Customer-obsessed
- Ship to learn
- Growth mindset
- Own the outcome
- Better together
- Diverse and inclusive
Join us at GitHub, the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform, and be part of a team that is changing the world through open-source software. We offer a remote-first work environment, competitive pay, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are.
Benefits Extracted with AI
- Remote work
- Competitive pay
- Learning and growth opportunities
- Annual bonus
- Stock options
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