Senior Software Engineer

About GitHub

GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform, used by over 180 million developers and 77,000 organizations globally. Powered by Copilot, GitHub enables agentic software development with a focus on building, scaling, and delivering secure software.

Role Overview

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Issues Platform team, you will work with a distributed team of engineers and designers to build highly performant systems. You will design, prototype, implement, ship, and support systems that millions of developers rely on daily.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and ship scalable technical solutions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define innovative systems.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and participate in code reviews.
• Develop GraphQL APIs and REST endpoints for product teams.
• Maintain and extend Ruby on Rails and new Go services.
• Drive service reliability through monitoring, instrumentation, and SLO management.
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortems.

Qualifications

Required: 6+ years in Software Engineering or equivalent with experience in coding languages including Go, Ruby, Python, and others. Proficiency in Ruby on Rails and scalable API design is essential.

Preferred: Experience in scripting languages, cloud environments, distributed systems, GraphQL, database optimization, and proactive reliability improvements.

GitHub Values and Culture

GitHub embraces a culture of customer obsession, growth mindset, collaboration, and diversity. The team is driven by a mission to deliver quality, reliable software while fostering an inclusive environment.

Location & Work Arrangement

This role can be performed remotely from the United Kingdom.

Key skills/competency

• Ruby on Rails
• Go
• GraphQL
• REST APIs
• Distributed Systems
• Scalability
• CI/CD
• Mentorship
• Monitoring
• Incident Response