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Senior Software Engineer, Observability Experience
United States · Senior
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About the role
- We make it easy to emit and act on high‑quality telemetry by providing standards, SDKs, and paved paths for instrumentation, alerting, monitoring, and SLOs.
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.
- 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.
- Become intimately familiar with the systems you build and take pride in writing maintainable code.
- Over 180 million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate, and more than 77,000 organisations have adopted GitHub Copilot.
- In this role you will design, prototype, implement, ship and support highly performant and inspiring user experiences with your team.
- Own the outcome
- Create clarity
- Deliver success
Requirements
- 2+ years experience instrumenting distributed systems with OpenTelemetry or similar frameworks
- 2+ years experience and proficiency with at least one observability platform (Datadog, Honeycomb, New Relic, Grafana, etc.) at a depth beyond dashboard consumption - querying, alerting, and data modeling
- 2+ years of experience with cloud-native and distributed architectures where failure modes are non-deterministic
- 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
- ○ 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
- ○ OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, 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
- ○ 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
- ○ OR Doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
- ○ OR equivalent experience.
- Preferred Qualifications:
- Strong customer focus and ability to partner with product engineers to troubleshoot availability issues and mitigate observability gaps
Nice to have
- Minimum 2 years experience using general purpose programming languages (e.g., Go, Ruby, or a similar language).
- Track record of improving observability practices across engineering teams
- Experience on a platform engineering or SRE team
- Customer-obsessed
- Diverse and inclusive
- Compensation Range
- These pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States.
- These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role.
Compensation
- 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.
Benefits
- Own and advocate for the health and quality of the systems that the team builds, including participating in on-call and first responder rotations
Company info
- 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
- GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles.
- We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life.
- We don't discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences.
- Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!
- GitHub is the world's leading platform for agentic software development - powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software.
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