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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...
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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...
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