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Software Engineer III, Monolith Systems
United States · Mid
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 183 days ago
JavaScriptPythonGoC++C#RubyDistributed SystemsGitMySQLRedisKubernetesCI/CDElectrical EngineeringLoad BalancingLeadershipCollaboration
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About the role
- We are looking for creative problem solvers and diverse thinkers, people who care about culture as well as customers and features.
- We believe that how we do things is as important as what we do.
- The Monolith Systems team is dedicated to the continuous health and improvement of the Monolith at GitHub.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test and ship high-quality technical solutions that scale across multiple GitHub services and make them more reliable.
- Own and understand the operational aspects of building systems across the GitHub portfolio of products.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement innovative solutions at scale.
- 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.
- Contribute to sustaining feedback loops from telemetry resulting in subsequent designs.
- 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.
- Own the outcome
- Create clarity
Requirements
- OR an Associate's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, or a related field AND 3+ years of relevant experience
- OR a Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, or a related field
- Required Qualifications:
- 4+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline with demonstrated experience in maintaining and delivering production software using languages such as C, C++, C#, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
- OR a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, or a related field AND 2+ years of experience in Computer Science or a related technical discipline with proven coding experience in languages such as C, C++, C#, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
- 1+ years experience designing, building, scaling and maintaining large-scale distributed systems (large scale = user base of 10 million+).
- Compensation Range
- The base salary range for this job is USD $107,700.00 - USD $285,900.00 /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 values
- Customer-obsessed
Compensation
- The base salary range for this job is USD $107,700.00 - USD $285,900.00 /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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