Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development, powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software. As a Senior Software Engineer on the GitHub Notifications team, you'll work on distributed systems that operate at massive scale, tackling challenges in event processing, data pipeline reliability, and real-time delivery to enhance human-agent collaboration. You will have real ownership from day one, contributing to the multi-service architecture that includes event processing pipelines and delivery systems.
Responsibilities
- Build and operate distributed systems that deliver billions of notifications weekly, powering how humans and agents coordinate work across every surface
- Have a real impact, take on ownership of GitHub.com. Contribute to and improve our code base from day one
- Foster technical growth across the team by researching new approaches, sharing insights, and guiding their practical adoption
- Write, review and maintain code primarily in Ruby (Rails), Go, and JavaScript (React, TypeScript)
- Improve the reliability and performance of notification delivery pipelines, database infrastructure, and real-time processing systems
- Help evolve the notification layer to support new kinds of events and collaboration patterns as AI agents become participants in developer workflows
- Work closely with engineering leadership to guide technical investment and implement technical roadmaps and priorities
- Coordinate with engineering and product leads to define, prioritize, and task projects that help us meet business objectives
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews to encourage the growth of others
Skills
- 6+ 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 Python
- OR 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 Python
- OR 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 Python
- OR 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 Python
- OR Doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field OR equivalent experience
- Minimum 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) concepts
- Experience with high-throughput event processing systems, message queues, or real-time delivery pipelines
- Interest in or experience with designing distributed systems that support human-agent collaboration patterns
- Track record of improving system availability and meeting SLO targets in production environments
- Experience with observability and incident response — you've debugged production issues under pressure and improved monitoring to prevent recurrence
- Experience working in distributed, remote-first teams across time zones
Benefits
- Annual bonus
- Stock
- 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
- Competitive pay
- Generous learning and growth opportunities
- Excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are
- Remote-first
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