GitHub is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Compute Platform team within its Developer Experience organization to focus on the systems and tools that enable their engineers to operate and scale the world's largest code hosting platform. The role involves planning, deploying, and maintaining Kubernetes clusters to enhance the Developer Experience for engineering and infrastructure teams.
Requirements
- 9+ 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-Sharp, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
- 2+ years technical leadership experience.
- 9+ years of technical engineering experience in infrastructure domains
- 4+ years of experience with Kubernetes platform architecture, primitives, and experience with AWS or Azure cloud environments
- Experience operating Kubernetes in a high scale, production environment.
- Competent in one or more scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python, or a similar language).
- Knowledge of Hashicorp’s Terraform, Consul, and Vault products
Responsibilities
- Build and improve the frameworks and tools we use to build, test, configure our Kubernetes clusters.
- Ensure a reliable Kubernetes platform across bare-metal, virtual machines, and cloud environments.
- Cultivate open source projects developed by GitHub and build things you are proud to share.
- Work closely with other engineering and infrastructure teams to design solutions and support Kubernetes workloads.
Other
- The Developer Experience team is highly distributed and you will thrive in an environment of remote work and asynchronous communication.
- You're expected to have strong written communication skills and be able to develop working relationships with coworkers in locations around the globe.
- As an engineer at GitHub you'll always be challenged to solve interesting and novel problems that have real impact on how the world builds software.
- GitHub values Customer-obsessed, Ship to learn, Growth mindset, Own the outcome, Better together, Diverse and inclusive
- 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.
