Software Engineer II, Identity Core

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.

Overview

As a Software Engineer II, Identity Core at GitHub, you will enhance the collaboration experience by working closely with a community of engineers and designers within a distributed, diverse, and passionate team. This role focuses on delivering services that millions of developers depend on, requiring you to design, prototype, implement, ship, and support highly performant and inspiring user experiences. We seek creative problem solvers and diverse thinkers who value culture, customers, and features, believing that the 'how' is as important as the 'what'. Big vision, a common purpose, passion for quality, curiosity, dedication, and investment in fun and collaboration drive great results, as great products reflect the teams that build them.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and ship high-quality technical solutions that scale across multiple GitHub services.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement innovative solutions.
• Own and advocate for the health and quality of the systems that the team builds, including participating in on-call and first responder rotations.
• Write architecture briefs and proposals, carry out code experiments, and build prototypes to learn how to achieve planetary scale with our systems.
• Design and implement APIs to facilitate seamless integration between software components.
• Utilize CI/CD tools to set up automated pipelines for continuous integration and delivery.
• Become intimately familiar with the systems you build and take pride in writing maintainable code.

Required Qualifications

• 2+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, 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 1+ year(s) experience. OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field. OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years building and supporting large, high traffic applications at scale.
• Experience utilizing AI or agentic workflows for implementation and enhancing impact.
• Experience with Git and GitHub.

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional experience coding in React.js, Ruby, Go, and/or Rails.
• Experience working cross functionally to deliver delightful customer experiences.
• Understanding of REST principles and experience with backend APIs.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Passionate about healthy team culture and collaboration.
• Experience working with a remote, distributed team.

Key skills/competency

• Software Engineering
• System Design
• Scalability
• API Development
• CI/CD
• AI/Agentic Workflows
• Git/GitHub
• Distributed Systems
• Backend Development
• Cloud Services