[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer, Code Scanning @GitHub, Inc.

Role Description

In the GitHub Code Scanning team, we are passionate about making the world’s software - both Open Source and Enterprise - secure and high quality. We believe that the best way to accomplish this is to detect security and quality issues early in the development process, and actively facilitate their remediation as part of the developer workflow.

Our team develops and operates the Code Scanning and Code Quality products that are part of GitHub’s Code Security offering. This role will be involved in the design, rollout and support of highly performant, highly scalable, and highly available services to make found-means-fixed a reality leveraging the power of agentic AI.

The opportunity:

• Join our engineering team and help design, develop, and scale GitHub's Code Scanning feature.
• Work in a full-stack agile engineering team that's part of the larger Code Scanning group working in Security Products.
• Collaborate with Senior and Staff engineers and influence team and product direction.
• Support and reward spending time on improving diversity, inclusion, and belonging.
• Work as a distributed group within a distributed company.
• Operate with a high degree of autonomy and trust.
• Value learning, introspection, and reflection.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test and ship high-quality technical solutions that scale across multiple GitHub services.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement innovative solutions.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews to encourage the growth of others.
• Own and advocate for the health and quality of the systems that the team builds, including participating in on-call and first responder rotations.
• Write architecture briefs and proposals, carry out code experiments, and build prototypes.
• Design and implement GraphQL APIs and REST endpoints.
• Maintain and extend Ruby on Rails applications and Go services.
• Drive improvements to service reliability through instrumentation, monitoring, and SLO management.
• Lead discussions for technical solutions within the team's area of responsibility.
• Drive identification of dependencies during the design of products, applications, services, or platforms.
• Participate in incident response, conduct root cause analysis, and contribute to postmortems.
• Drive efforts to integrate instrumentation for gathering telemetry data on system behavior.
• Utilize CI/CD tools to set up automated pipelines for continuous integration and delivery.
• Become intimately familiar with the systems you build and take pride in writing maintainable code.

Qualifications

• 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 a related field AND 5+ years experience.
• OR Bachelor's Degree in a related field AND 4+ years experience.
• OR Master's Degree in a related field AND 2+ years experience.
• OR Doctorate in a related field OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building end to end applications leveraging agentic AI.
• Building web applications in either Ruby or Go.
• Developing with relational databases.
• Developing on large Ruby on Rails or React applications.
• Site reliability engineering.
• Distributed systems and operating software at scale.

GitHub values

• Customer-obsessed
• Ship to learn
• Growth mindset
• Own the outcome
• Better together
• Diverse and inclusive

Leadership principles

• Create clarity
• Generate energy
• Deliver success

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.