About GitHub:
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Locations:
In this role you can work from Remote, United States
Overview:
GitHub Enterprise Cloud is GitHub's multi-region platform for customers with data residency and regional control requirements. The GitHub Enterprise Cloud Platform team sets the technical direction for the systems that provision, automate, and operate these regional deployments at scale.
As a Staff Software Engineer on the GitHub Enterprise Cloud Platform team, you will define and drive the technical strategy for GitHub's regional infrastructure. You'll lead architecture decisions that span provisioning, automation, service onboarding, and operational resilience across multiple regions. In this role, you will own large cross-cutting initiatives end-to-end, partner with engineering leaders across the organization to align on platform direction, and raise the engineering bar through mentorship, system design, and operational excellence. You will be expected to operate with high autonomy, identify the highest-leverage investments for the platform, and ensure the team's technical decisions scale with GitHub's growing multi-region footprint.
Responsibilities:
- Lead architecture and execution for large platform initiatives across regional deployments.
- Define and drive the technical strategy for provisioning, capacity management, and service onboarding at scale.
- Drive end-to-end improvements to provisioning, automation, and service onboarding.
- Set technical direction across multiple repositories and partner teams.
- Shape the platform's reliability, scalability, and operational model as it grows.
- Identify and address architectural gaps, cross-service dependencies, and systemic risks before they become incidents.
- Create durable patterns, frameworks, and documentation that enable other engineers and teams to operate independently.
- Mentor engineers and raise the bar for system design, incident response, and cross-team execution.
- Represent the team's technical perspective in leadership discussions and cross-org planning.
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, Go, Ruby, Rust, Python, JavaScript, C, C++, C#, Java,
o 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, Go, Ruby, Rust, Python, JavaScript, C, C++, C#, Java,
o 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, Go, Ruby, Rust, Python, JavaScript, C, C++, C#, Java,
o 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, Go, Ruby, Rust, Python, JavaScript, C, C++, C#, Java,
o 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, Go, Ruby, Rust, Python, JavaScript, C, C++, C#, Java,
o OR equivalent experience.
- 3+ years Experience with infrastructure-as-code, provisioning automation, or platform orchestration (e.g., Terraform, Bicep, Pulumi).
- 2+ years of demonstrated ability to effectively leverage AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, AI code review) to improve productivity, code quality, and engineering workflows.
- 5+ years of hands-on On-call experience, driving post incident retrospectives and driving systemic improvement and repairs through.
Preferred Qualifications -
- Experience with multi-region or data-residency-aware architectures at scale.
- Experience with capacity planning, quota management, or cloud resource lifecycle across multiple environments.
- Experience leading incident response and driving systemic reliability improvements.
- Experience mentoring senior engineers or leading technical working groups.
- Track record of setting technical direction that influenced how multiple teams build or operate,creating reusable systems, patterns, or platforms adopted beyond your immediate team.
Compensation Range:
The base salary range for this job is USD $140,400.00 - USD $372,300.00 /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.
This position will be open for a minimum of 3 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
GitHub Leadership Principles:
GitHub values
- Customer-obsessed
- Ship to learn
- Growth mindset
- Own the outcome
- Better together
- Diverse and inclusive
Manager fundamentals
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:
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