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SalaryLocations: In this role you can work from Remote, United States
Overview:
GitHub is the home for software development, where developers collaborate to build some of the world’s most important software.
The GitHub Security Products team is on a mission to secure the world’s software. We’re building tools that make it easy to find, fix and prevent security vulnerabilities, and are deploying them to millions of developers. Our products include GitHub’s dependency scanning, Secret Scanning, and code scanning capabilities.
Every day, developers unintentionally commit secrets into their repositories. Without intervention, this can cause damaging privacy and monetary losses. We’re solving that. For secret leaks in public repos we notify cloud providers automatically so they can take action. Try committing an AWS access key and secret to a public repo and you’ll receive a notification from AWS within seconds - we’re the team that makes that possible. For private repos we surface results directly to users. Recently we made push protection available to all users in public, extending our mission to put an end to credential based breaches.
We’re looking for a Software Engineer to help accelerate our Secret Scanning product. You will join a remote, diverse, and passionate team. You’ll help create and maintain features that protect millions of developers worldwide, and your work will have a direct impact on the security and sustainability of the open source ecosystem.
A day in the life on our team
We are a remote team who codes in Go and Ruby. While we do work asynchronously, we also like to pair regularly. In your first 30 days, you can expect to foster a relationship with the team, learn how to ship a small feature or bugfix, end-to-end, and begin to understand the application architecture. In your first 90 days, you can expect to have shipped several small features and bugfixes, participated in code review, design discussions, and start to feel more comfortable owning a bigger feature from design to completion.
Responsibilities:
Beyond your onboarding, your typical week would include:
Collaborating with design and product management to understand the problems we want to solve and exploring how we can solve them
Discussing and collaboratively solving engineering and product problems in Slack or Zoom
Opening Pull Requests to implement the next most important feature or fix the most critical bug
Reviewing your teammates' Pull Requests and providing helpful feedback
Working with your engineering manager in your one-on-one meetings to grow your team and career
Required Qualifications
4+ years experience as a full-time professional Software Engineer
1+ year experience building, operating, and maintaining resilient, highly available, scalable, distributed services
Knowledge of testing, profiling, and debugging practices
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
Preferred Qualifications
Strong written communication skills
Ability to learn and think critically about both system design and Software Engineering concepts and blend those perspectives pragmatically based on project needs
Experience working with React
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!
