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Staff Software Engineer, Compute Platform

  2025-09-10     GitHub     San Francisco,CA  
Description:

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 150+ million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate and experiment across 420+ 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 | Remote, United States

Overview

GitHub is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Compute Platform team within our Developer Experience organization. You will focus on the systems and tools that enable our engineers to operate and scale the world's largest code hosting platform. You will plan, deploy, and maintain our Kubernetes clusters with a focus on making the Developer Experience the best it can be for our engineering and infrastructure teams.

The Developer Experience 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 real impact on how the world builds software.

Responsibilities

  • Build and improve the frameworks and tools we use to build, test, configure our Kubernetes clusters.

  • Ensure a reliable Kubernetes platform across bare-metal, virtual machines, and cloud environments.

  • Cultivate open source projects developed by GitHub and build things you are proud to share.

  • Work closely with other engineering and infrastructure teams to design solutions and support Kubernetes workloads.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

  • 9+ 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

  • OR Associate's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ 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

  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field AND 7+ 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

  • OR Master'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.

  • OR Doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ 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.

  • OR equivalent experience.

  • 2+ years technical leadership experience.

  • 9+ years of technical engineering experience in infrastructure domains

  • 4+ years of experience with Kubernetes platform architecture, primitives, and experience with AWS or Azure cloud environments

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience operating Kubernetes in a high scale, production environment. Specific experience in managing/configuring AKS or EKS environments highly preferred.

  • Competent in one or more scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python, or a similar language).

  • Knowledge of Hashicorp's Terraform, Consul, and Vault products

  • Experience with virtualization, bare metal deployment, or network engineering

  • Experience with diagnosing and automating large, complex distributed systems with an eye toward reliability

Compensation Range

The base salary range for this job is USD $127,600.00 - USD $338,500.00 /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!


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