[Remote] Staff Software Engineer Cloud Foundations

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development. As a Staff Software Engineer on the Cloud Foundations Team, you will lead the technical direction of a platform that supports hundreds of internal teams, designing and implementing systems for compute infrastructure and cloud-native patterns.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical decision making and architecture across the Cloud Foundations surface area, including compute lifecycle, configuration management, infrastructure orchestration, and fleet inventory
• Design and implement scalable, reliable and performant solutions for complex problems such as fleet-wide reboot orchestration, immutable image pipelines, multi-region state management, and service discovery at scale
• Define and build GitHub's Azure paved paths, including event-driven compute, and cloud-native patterns
• Drive the evolution of foundational systems from data center to Azure-native equivalents
• Write, review, and maintain code primarily in Go, and partner with the team on language and tooling choices for new systems
• Mentor other engineers in their technical and architectural decision making, and raise the engineering bar through code review and design feedback
• Participate in on-call rotations for the services and systems owned by the team, leading incident response on hard problems and driving the follow-up work that prevents repeat issues

Skills

• 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
• 4+ years building and supporting large, high traffic applications at scale within platform/infrastructure domains
• 4+ years supporting and building cloud native workloads in Azure, AWS or Google Cloud
• 2+ years experience operating fleet-scale compute infrastructure such as hypervisor platforms, configuration management systems, or orchestration tooling
• 6+ years experience with Azure, or any other Cloud Provider
• Experience designing or operating paved-path platforms on Azure (Functions, App Service, AKS) or comparable offerings on AWS or GCP
• Experience with Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or comparable configuration management systems at fleet scale
• Experience building or maintaining planetary scale engineering systems
• Experience working with a remote, distributed team

Benefits

• Annual bonus
• Stock
• Sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role
• Competitive pay
• Generous learning and growth opportunities
• Excellent benefits
• Remote-first

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