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Senior Software Engineer
United States · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 167 days ago
JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonJavaGoC++C#RubyBashReactRailsDistributed SystemsCode ReviewGitCloud PlatformsAgentic AIIncident ResponseElectrical EngineeringLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoring
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About the role
- GitHub Notifications is the connective tissue of the developer workflow - delivering billions of signals every week across web, email, mobile, Slack, and Teams so developers never miss what matters.
- As we accelerate human-agent collaboration, these communication and coordination pipelines become even more critical.
- As a Senior Software Engineer on this team, you'll work on distributed systems that operate at massive scale and touch every GitHub user.
Responsibilities
- Build and operate distributed systems that deliver billions of notifications weekly, powering how humans and agents coordinate work across every surface
- Write, review and maintain code primarily in Ruby (Rails), Go, and JavaScript (React, TypeScript)
- Help evolve the notification layer to support new kinds of events and collaboration patterns as AI agents become participants in developer workflows
- Work closely with engineering leadership to guide technical investment and implement technical roadmaps and priorities
- Coordinate with engineering and product leads to define, prioritize, and task projects that help us meet business objectives
- Own the outcome
- Create clarity
- Deliver success
Nice to have
- Minimum 2 years experience in one or more scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python, or a similar language)
- Minimum 2 years experience using general purpose programming languages (e.g., Go, Ruby, or a similar language).
- Minimum 3 years experience with cloud environments and/or Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF) concepts
- Experience with high-throughput event processing systems, message queues, or real-time delivery pipelines
- Interest in or experience with designing distributed systems that support human-agent collaboration patterns
- Track record of improving system availability and meeting SLO targets in production environments
- Experience with observability and incident response - you've debugged production issues under pressure and improved monitoring to prevent recurrence
- Compensation Range
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.
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!
- As part of this team you'll work on Notifications and deliver customer value with everything we do.
Visa & Work Authorization
- ployees 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
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