Join GitHub’s Data Architecture team to improve reliability, observability, and operational tooling for Redis-based caching and Object Storage across GitHub. Responsibilities include designing and shipping scalable solutions, incident investigation across services, participating in on-call rotations, writing architecture proposals, and collaborating with infra, security, and product teams. Required: multiple years of software engineering experience (6+ years indicated), distributed systems experience, and proficiency with several programming languages and infrastructure tooling.

Lead technical direction and implementation of Kubernetes-based platform systems that support GitHub production services, focusing on reliability, automation, operational clarity, and reducing toil. Work includes cluster lifecycle and fleet management, AKS migration, capacity and control-plane reliability, debugging production issues across cloud infrastructure, and mentoring engineers. Requires extensive software engineering experience and hands-on Kubernetes/cloud-native platform experience.

Join the Build and Test team in Developer Experience to design, operate, and evolve GitHub's core build and continuous integration platforms. Responsibilities include improving CI reliability, reducing test flakiness, responding to incidents, partnering with engineering teams, and shipping features for scalable, secure developer workflows.

Join GitHub's Production Engineering organization to embed with product and infrastructure teams to improve reliability, scalability, and operability of production systems. Responsibilities include diagnosing and resolving live incidents, building software and infrastructure to improve operations, driving observability and capacity planning, automating operational workflows, and mentoring engineers. Required experience includes extensive software engineering background and experience with large-scale distributed systems and languages such as Go, Rust, C++, Java, Python, or C#.

Join GitHub's Elasticsearch team to design, build, and maintain large-scale Elasticsearch clusters, optimize indexing and reindex processes, improve search relevance tooling, and manage cluster availability and performance. Requires substantial experience operating Elasticsearch at scale and producing production software using languages such as Go, Ruby, or Rust.

Join GitHub Actions as a Staff Software Engineer to design, implement, and operate high-performance, cloud-based systems that run CI/CD for millions of developers. Responsibilities include system architecture, APIs, operational excellence (on-call/incident response), security for untrusted code execution, mentoring, and driving technical roadmaps. Multiple programming languages and large-scale distributed systems experience required.

Hire for a Senior Software Engineer on the Code Scanning Engine Quality team at GitHub (work from Spain or remote). The role focuses on delivering CodeQL-powered analysis in production (GitHub.com/GHES), building CI/release tooling, improving offline evaluation, and working with cross-functional teams to improve security, reliability, and developer experience. Requires significant software engineering experience and hands-on work with languages such as C/C++, C#, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python.

GitHub is hiring a Staff Software Engineer (remote, Canada) for the Pathfinders team to define and drive the developer platform, build automation and paved-path templates, and operate fleet-wide systems. Responsibilities include designing large cross-team architectures, writing and reviewing production code (primarily Go and Ruby), participating in on-call and incident response, and mentoring engineers. The role expects significant experience in backend/platform/infrastructure engineering and delivering production systems.

Join GitHub's Code Scanning Engine Quality team to develop and operate CodeQL-powered analysis across production (GitHub.com, GHES), build CI pipelines and internal developer platforms, and improve offline evaluation and release processes. Role emphasizes quality, reliability, and collaboration with engineering, product, and user communities. Requires several years of software engineering experience with languages such as C/C++, C#, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python and experience in areas like software security, DevOps, CI, or ML for code.

Work on GitHub's lexical and semantic code search engine (Blackbird) to design, implement, scale, operate and secure globally distributed code search systems. Responsibilities include on-call participation, automation and CI/CD pipelines, observability and monitoring, reliability and security practices, writing architecture proposals, and collaborating across Copilot Agents teams. Required background includes several years of software engineering experience and familiarity with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, DevOps/SRE practices, and one or more systems/programming languages.

Senior engineering role owning design, implementation, and operation of core GitHub Actions infrastructure that processes large-scale CI/CD workloads. Responsibilities include building scalable services, leading technical initiatives, participating in on-call rotations, improving reliability and security, mentoring engineers, and collaborating across teams.