Staff Software Engineer, Vulnerability Management

About GitHub: As the global home for all developers, GitHub is the complete AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 100 million people, including developers from 90 of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to build amazing things together across 330+ million repositories. With all the collaborative features of GitHub, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write faster, better code.
Locations: In this role you can work from Remote, United States
Overview:

Do you want to be part of the team enabling software development teams to do their best work, with the world’s most elegant, secure, reliable, and powerful developer platform?

GitHub is changing the way the world builds software. To accomplish this we run thousands of services. On the Vulnerability Management team we're focused on building automated platforms that enable us to maintain the quality and excellence of our products and services at incredible scale. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will work closely with a distributed, diverse, and passionate team of engineers to ensure GitHub remains a secure home for 100M+ developers.

The Vulnerability Management team is a fully remote team. We expect you to have the ability to communicate complex technical concepts and be able to create working relationships with coworkers in locations around the globe.

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 platforms reflect the teams that build them.

Responsibilities:

• Lead technical decision making and architecture
• Architect and implement highly available distributed systems
• Mentor other engineers in their technical and architectural decision making
• Document the systems you help architect, build, and maintain
• Maintain and improve APIs used internally at GitHub
• Write, review, and maintain code primary in Python, Go and JavaScript
• 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

Qualifications:

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years extensive experience in web application development
• 4+ years proficiency in building large, high volume web applications at scale
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience maintaining a critical public facing service
• Experience working with a remote, distributed team
• Experience using GraphQL in production environments
• Sound knowledge and proven experience with testing principles
• Experience promoting and implementing effective engineering practices and processes
• Ability to evaluate the trade-offs for building highly available distributed systems

Compensation Range: USD $118,100.00 - USD $313,300.00 /Yr.
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

Who We Are: GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with 100 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.
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!