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SalaryLocations: In this role you can work from Remote, United States
Overview:
As a Software Engineer at GitHub, you will enhance the collaboration experience at GitHub by working closely with a community of engineers and designers with a distributed, diverse and passionate team delivering the services that millions of developers depend on. In this role you will design, prototype, implement, ship and support highly performant and inspiring user experiences with your team.
We are looking for creative problem solvers and diverse thinkers, people who care about culture as well as customers and features. We believe that how we do things is as important as what we do. Big vision, a common purpose, passion for quality, curiosity, dedication, and investment in fun and collaboration are what lead to great results. Great products reflect the teams that build them.
Responsibilities:Write, review and maintain code primarily in Go, Ruby, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Python
Own and advocate for the health and quality of the systems that the team builds, including participating in on-call and first responder rotations
Collaborate with your team, product and design to build new features.
Document systems, experiments and prototypes that you help build
Share technical direction, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews to encourage the growth of others
Be a role model to create a culture of psychological safety both within the team and cross-team, where differing views can be shared and heard
Required Qualifications
2+ years of experience developing production software using Go, Ruby, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python or equivalent language2+ years of experience building and maintaining web applications
2+ years experience with Cosmos DB
Experience with React and front-end client libraries
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with Git and GitHubExperience using Azure technologies is a bonus
Understanding of REST principles and experience with backend APIs
Strong written and verbal communication skill
Passionate about healthy team culture and collaboration
Comfortable working asynchronously with a distributed team
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.
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.
GitHub Leadership Principles:
GitHub values
- Customer-obsessed
- Ship to learn
- Growth mindset
- Own the outcome
- Better together
- Diverse and inclusive
Manager fundamentals
- Model
- Coach
- Care
Leadership principles
- Create clarity
- Generate energy
- Deliver success
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.
EEO Statement: 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. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!
