Job Title: Senior Software Engineer Company Name: GitHub Job Url: https://jobright.ai/jobs/info/69ba901f3b74eb1e2c888a62 Job Description: GitHub · 1 hour ago Senior Software Engineer United States Full-time Remote Senior Level 6+ years exp 82% GOOD MATCH 100% Exp. Level 65% Skill 67% Industry Exp. GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development, powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software. The Senior Software Engineer will work on the Dependabot team to create a world-class offering in the Software Composition Analysis space, focusing on delivering high-quality technical solutions and mentoring junior engineers. 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Find Any Email 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 Mentor junior engineers Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews 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 to learn how we can achieve planetary scale with our systems Design and implement APIs to facilitate seamless integration between software components 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 Qualification Represents the skills you have Find out how your skills align with this job's requirements. 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Software Engineering C C++ C# Java JavaScript Go Ruby Rust Python Relational databases MySQL PostgreSQL Microsoft SQL Server Cloud platforms AWS Google Cloud Platform Microsoft Azure Software Composition Analysis Distributed systems High-throughput cloud architectures API design CI/CD pipelines Cyber security ETL pipelines Asynchronous architectures AI models Open source project maintenance Mentorship Required 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 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 field OR equivalent experience 6+ years of experience with relational databases (MySQL, PSQL, MSSQL, etc) 1+ year experience shipping production software on a big 3 cloud platform (AWS, GCP, Azure) Preferred Previous experience working at a senior level on a cyber security product building ETL pipelines and succeeding with asynchronous architectures building with frontier AI models maintaining non-obscure open source projects Benefits Annual bonus Stock Competitive pay Generous learning and growth opportunities Excellent benefits Company GitHub Glassdoor 3.7 GitHub is a software company that offers code hosting services that allow developers to build software for open-source and private projects. It is a sub-organization of Microsoft. Founded in 2008 San Francisco, California, USA 501-1000 employees https://github.com H1B Sponsorship GitHub has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. 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