Senior Software Engineer

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Locations: In this role you can work from Remote, United States
Overview:

As an engineer at GitHub, you will work with a distributed, diverse and passionate team delivering the services that millions of developers rely on to build their own software. 

 

The Dependabot team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help us create a world-class offering in the Software Composition Analysis (SCA) space. The ideal candidate will have a background in large distributed systems, high-throughput cloud architectures, and an obsession with getting genuine accuracy in squishy domains. You’re an outside-the-box thinker with an interest in the cutting edge, but a strong pragmatic streak. People tend to follow your lead because you go to sensible places.

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. 
• Mentor junior engineers 
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews 
• 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 we can 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. 

Qualifications:

Required Qualifications:

• 6+ 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

               o OR Associate’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

               o OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field AND 4+ 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

               o OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics

                  Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or

                  related field AND 2+ 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.

               o OR Doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics

                  Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or

                  related field.

               o OR equivalent experience.

• 6+ years of experience with relational databases (MySQL, PSQL, MSSQL, etc) 
• 1+ year experience shipping production software on a big 3 cloud platform (AWS, GCP, Azure) 

 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous experience working at a senior level on a cyber security product
• • building ETL pipelines and succeeding with asynchronous architectures
  • building with frontier AI models
  • maintaining non-obscure open source projects 

 

Compensation Range: The base salary range for this job is USD $124,000.00 - USD $329,200.00 /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 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

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