Senior Software Engineer, Observability
Temporal Technologies · United States
GitHub, Inc. · United States
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As a Senior Software Engineer on the GitHub Enterprise Cloud Platform team, you will build and operate the infrastructure and automation that powers GitHub's regional deployments. You'll work across provisioning, networking, compute, storage, and service onboarding to expand GitHub's multi-region footprint reliably and securely.
In this role, you will partner across engineering teams to bring new services into regional environments, improve operational tooling and incident response, and drive platform investments that make each regional expansion faster and safer than the last.
Build and improve provisioning workflows for regional GitHub Enterprise Cloud deployments.
Own platform services and automation across networking, compute, storage, DNS, and service onboarding.
Design and operate capacity management systems for multi-region Azure environments.
Partner with adjacent teams to bring GitHub services into regional environments safely and consistently.
Drive deployment safety and CI/CD quality for regional service onboarding pipelines.
Improve operational tooling, validation, and incident response for regional deployments.
Lead technical investments that reduce operational toil, improve deployment velocity, and increase confidence in regional expansions.
Contribute to the reliability, scalability, and lifecycle management of the platform.
Provide operational support for regional infrastructure and lead investigation of critical issues impacting availability or provisioning.
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 fie ○ OR equivalent experience.
3+ years Experience with infrastructure-as-code, provisioning automation, or platform orchestration (e.g., Terraform, Bicep, Pulumi).
2+ years of demonstrated ability to effectively leverage AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, AI code review) to improve productivity, code quality, and engineering workflows.
5+ years of hands-on On-call experience, running post incident retrospectives and driving systemic improvement and repairs through.
Experience with multi-region or data-residency-aware architectures at scale.
Experience with capacity planning, quota management, or cloud resource lifecycle.
Experience with incident response and production operations at scale.
The base salary range for this job is USD $124,000.00 - USD $329,200.00 /Yr.
These pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States. An individual's base pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant. At GitHub certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock.
These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role. In addition, 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.
This position will be open for a minimum of 3 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered 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.
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