GitHub is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join its growing Engineering team to lead system architecture design, coach engineering teams, and deliver impactful technical solutions, addressing complex engineering challenges with scalable systems and performance optimization.
Requirements
- proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C-Sharp, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
- Demonstrated expertise in emerging technologies such as cloud computing, machine learning, or blockchain, with a proven ability to integrate these technologies into existing systems.
- Advanced proficiency in multiple programming languages, including but not limited to C++, Java, Python, and Rust, with a strong ability to adapt to new languages and technologies.
Responsibilities
- Lead and influence system architecture design for complex products and solutions, ensuring they meet security, compliance, and performance requirements.
- Establish and mentor best practices for testing, performance tuning, and code quality, defining success metrics and ensuring maintainability across dependencies.
- Provide technical leadership during code reviews to ensure reliability, scalability, and alignment with product goals.
- Partner with product managers and technical leads to define service requirements and incorporate feedback into future designs.
- Act as an expert in debugging tools and methods, leading proactive and reactive development to resolve issues across teams.
- Optimize deployments and runtime performance to meet business objectives, ensuring safe rollouts aligned with GitHub’s standards.
- Drive improvements in development quality and team performance through tooling, automation, and knowledge sharing.
Other
- This leadership role involves leading system architecture design, coaching engineering teams, and delivering impactful technical solutions.
- They thrive in cross-functional environments and bring creative, pragmatic solutions to complex engineering challenges.
- As a Principal Software Engineer at GitHub, you will collaborate with a distributed, diverse, and passionate team of engineers and product managers across GitHub and other partners.
- We operate in a culture that values developer empathy, transparency, and inclusive collaboration, where curiosity and impact drive everything we build.
- Experience working closely with product management, design, and other engineering teams to drive cross-functional projects and deliver high-quality products
