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Senior Software Engineer, Client Apps Platform
United States · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 181 days ago
JavaScriptPythonJavaGoC++C#RubyRailsDistributed SystemsCode ReviewGitGraphQLIncident ResponseElectrical EngineeringLeadershipCommunicationCollaboration
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About the role
- You'll join the Client Apps Platform team, the connective tissue between GitHub's client applications (gh-CLI, Desktop, Mobile) and feature ‑ owning backend teams.
- This role offers deep exposure to distributed systems, cross ‑ surface architecture, and influencing technical direction across organizational boundaries.
- The Client Apps Platform team plays a unique role at GitHub.
Responsibilities
- Maintain, extend, and operate production level Ruby and Go services powering first party client apps
- Lead and facilitate technical design and architecture discussions across product, client app engineers, and domain service teams
- propose, validate, and document architectural tradeoffs.
- identify and drive extraction of common functionality from apps into shared platform components.
- Serve on rotation as on-call/first-responder, lead incident response and postmortems, and implement long ‑ term reliability improvements.
- Own the outcome
- Create clarity
- Deliver success
Requirements
- Proven experience maintaining and operating live services, including monitoring, debugging, and incident response.
- Collaborate with domain teams to extend or integrate with GitHub's Ruby on Rails monolith when additional domain bandwidth or migrations are required.
- 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.
- Demonstrated experience in software and system design for scalable, reliable services.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with experience facilitating cross-team technical discussions.
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience with Go and/or Ruby (Ruby on Rails) in production.
- Familiarity with GraphQL and RPC frameworks such as Twirp.
- Experience extracting shared libraries/platforms from application codebases and driving adoption.
- Proven ability to work within and extend large existing codebases (e.g., monoliths).
- Experience defining SLOs, telemetry, and observability tooling.
- 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
- monitor telemetry and service health to drive data informed decisions.
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!
- We focus on facilitation, collaboration, and thoughtful system design, helping navigate the creative tension between client experiences and backend capabilities while building shared platform solutions that scale across GitHub.
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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