Software Engineer III

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 100 million people, including developers from 90 of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to build amazing things together across 330+ 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 Kingdom
Overview:

Our Developer Experience Team (DX) is hiring in the UK. For this specific role, we're looking for someone who values the following:

• Customer first mindset: We support Github’s internal developers and enable them to get their code into production. Our product and thinking needs to have customer first consideration. 

• Creating together: Getting to the best result is our focus. This may involve input and contributions from designers, engineers, and product partners working across both platform and product concerns – and ideally all of the above. Facilitating collaboration between disciplines and teams is key to evolving the design system alongside the needs of the product.

• Psychological safety: Our team works closely together in a fast paced environment.  We need to be there to support each other.

• Agility: We work in a fast paced environment that sometimes requires us to pivot from one area to another.

 

Responsibilities:

 

• Write, review and maintain code in Ruby/Rails for our internal deployment tool

• Help in evolving our Deployment tool to the next generation.

• Work closely with Product Manager and sister teams to get features delivered.

• Provide code review on internal and external contributions to the system.

• Prototype, experiment, and create demos to find the right solutions.

• Perform analysis of a problem to find its contributing factors and driving technical fixes

• Participate in on-call rotations. Triage and respond to issues and advocate for opportunities to improve service health.

 

Qualifications:

Required/Minimum Qualifications

 

      ● 4+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical     discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python 

o OR Associate’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years experience 

o OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 2+ years experience in Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python

o OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field o OR equivalent experience.

 

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with infrastructure as code systems, such as Kubernetes and Puppet.

• You have led development of or contributed to frameworks used by other engineers, such as internal or open source component libraries, styling systems, or utilities for developer experience.

• Experience working on developer tools and/or a developer-focused product.

• Track record of working across organizational boundaries to deliver functionality.

• Experience in auditing a system to identify gaps in legacy tools/processes

 

GitHub Leadership Principles:

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 100 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.
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