Software Engineer

GitHub, Inc.
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
3 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Temporary to permanent
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
£ 85K

Job location

Remote
Charing Cross, United Kingdom

Tech stack

C
Java
JavaScript
API
Artificial Intelligence
Bash
C Sharp (Programming Language)
C++
Cloud Computing
Computer Programming
Computer Engineering
Continuous Integration
Distributed Systems
Github
Python
Open Source Technology
Ruby on Rails
Ruby
Software Engineering
TypeScript
Web Services
Rust
Scripting (Bash/Python/Go/Ruby)
Google Cloud Platform
React
Flask
Backend
FastAPI
Information Technology
GraphQL
Database Replication
Software Coding
Go
Programming Languages

Job description

About GitHub GitHub is the world's leading platform for agentic software development - powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software. 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.Locations In this role you can work from Remote, United KingdomOverview As a Senior Software Engineer on the Issues Platform team at GitHub, you will enhance the collaboration experience by working closely with a community of engineers and designers on a distributed, diverse and passionate team delivering the services that millions of developers depend on. In this role you will design, prototype, implement, ship and support highly performant systems with your team.The Issues Platform team is a subteam of the broader GitHub Issues team within the Core Productivity engineering organization. Our core strategy is to invest in making Issues a reliable, fast and flexible, on-call and first responder rotationsWrite architecture briefs and proposals, carry out code experiments, and build prototypes to learn how we can achieve planetary scale with our systemsDesign and implement GraphQL APIs and REST endpoints that serve as building blocks for product teams to build new featuresMaintain and extend Ruby on Rails applications while contributing to new Go servicesDrive improvements to service reliability through instrumentation, monitoring, and SLO managementLead discussions for technical solutions within the team's area of responsibility and create proposals for architectureDrive identification of dependencies during the design of products, applications, services, or platformsParticipate in incident response, conduct root cause analysis, and contribute to postmortemsDrive efforts to integrate instrumentation for gathering telemetry data on system behavior such as performance, reliability, availability, and usageUtilize CI/CD tools to set up, 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.Equal Employment Opportunity 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!#J-18808-Ljbffr Similar jobs, Job Description Role: Senior Software Engineer (with DevOps) Location: Remote (with occasional monthly collaboration days) Are you... - A software Engineer with 5+ years experience, working with modern programming with one or more programming languages, Python and/or..., Job Description Senior Software Engineer - AI Startup - Up to 140k Salary: £70,000 - £140,000 + meaningful equity ️ Location: London, flexible working arrangements, ideally 2/3 days in office Tech Stack: Python, Flask, FastAPI, React, TypeScript, GCP (Backend...

Requirements

solution that scales with the growth of our user base. We are a platform team, which means our customers are both the millions of developers who use GitHub Issues daily and the internal product teams who build features on top of our platform. We measure our success by service level objectives, the ability of partner teams to iterate rapidly on new features, and customer feedback on reliability and performance.Our work is organized around three pillars: Reliability (ensuring GitHub Issues is always available and resilient), Scalability (building extensible architecture and consistent performance at scale), and Developer Experience (providing clear service boundaries and reusable building blocks for partner teams). You will contribute to projects across these pillars, from maintaining and extending our Ruby on Rails application to building new Go services that power our GraphQL APIs and REST endpoints.We are looking for creative problem solvers and diverse thinkers, people who care about, automated pipelines for continuous integration and deliveryBecome intimately familiar with the systems you build and take pride in writing maintainable codeQualifications Required/Minimum Qualifications6+ 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 PythonOR 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 PythonOR 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 PythonOR 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 PythonOR Doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related fieldOR equivalent experience.Demonstrated proficiency in Ruby and Ruby on Rails, with experience building and maintaining large-scale web applicationsExperience with building highly scalable API, backend and web services in Go is highly valued as we are increasingly building new systems and services in GoA deep understanding of large-scale distributed systems, including consistency, reliability, and performance at scaleExperience with participating in on-call rotations and incident response, including triaging production issues, conducting root cause analysis, and contributing to postmortemsPreferred QualificationsMinimum 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) conceptsExperience working with distributed systems, including, service-oriented, Job Description Senior / Principal Software Engineer - C++, Python - Financial / Banking Candidates will have a minimum 8+ years C++ experience and excellent knowledge of Python -coming from a Financial / Banking background with knowledge of Equities, Futures & Options...

Benefits & conditions

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About the company

culture as well as customers and features. We believe that how we do things is as important as what we do. Big vision, a common purpose, passion for quality, curiosity, dedication, and investment in fun and collaboration are what lead to great results. Great products reflect the teams that build them.GitHub is the world's leading AI-powered developer platform. Our values guide how we work: Customer-obsessed, Ship to learn, Growth mindset, Own the outcome, Better together, and Diverse and inclusive. We create clarity, generate energy, and deliver success.ResponsibilitiesDesign, develop, test and ship high-quality technical solutions that scale across multiple GitHub servicesCollaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement innovative solutionsProvide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews to encourage the growth of othersOwn and advocate for the health and quality of the systems that the team builds, including participating in, architectures, data replication, eventual consistency, and strategies for handling failures gracefullyExperience with database optimization, query performance tuning, and working with both relational databases and search technologiesExperience with GraphQL, including designing schemas, implementing resolvers, and operating services that expose GraphQL APIs at scaleExperience with federated GraphQL architectures, subgraph development, and API design strategiesFamiliarity with service health indicators (SLOs, SLIs), observability tooling, and data-driven decision making for prioritizing reliability improvementsExperience driving efforts to reduce incident volume and improve system resilience through proactive monitoring and alertingGitHub valuesCustomer-obsessedShip to learnGrowth mindsetOwn the outcomeBetter togetherDiverse and inclusiveManager fundamentalsModelCoachCareLeadership principlesCreate clarityGenerate energyDeliver successWho We Are GitHub is the world's leading AI-powered, Permax Recruitment Limited £100,000 Permax Recruitment is working in partnership with a London based firm who are on the lookout for a Software Engineer. For nearly a century, our client has been building a firm as accountants, auditors, tax specialists and close advisors to clients operating in emerging..., HL is the UK's largest direct-to-consumer savings and investment platform, trusted by over 2 million clients and administering more than £172 billion in assets. Founded in 1981 and headquartered in Bristol, our purpose is to help people achieve financial freedom by..., Job Description Senior Full Stack .NET Engineer * £75,000 - £90,000 + share options * London | Hybrid working (2-3 days office) Our client is a fast-growing payments technology company who are transforming their sector. Due to continued platform growth and global demand..., Job Description Onda is a specialist cyber insurance MGA, backed by the world's leading cyber insurers. We help brokers and their clients understand cyber risk using our proprietary platform Navigator and cover every connection. Our Belief: We are good people, doing good...

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