Senior Software Engineer, Observability Experience

About this role

• United States
• Engineering
• Experienced Professional
• Individual Contributor
• Yes
• 5260
• Full Time

## Job Description

About GitHub

GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development — powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 180 million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate, and more than 77,000 organisations have adopted GitHub Copilot.

Locations

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.

This Senior Software Engineer role sits on the Observability Experience team, which enables teams across GitHub to build reliable, highly available services. We make it easy to emit and act on high‑quality telemetry by providing standards, SDKs, and paved paths for instrumentation, alerting, monitoring, and SLOs. We also partner closely with vendors like Datadog, Sentry, and Azure Monitor to ensure GitHub teams have best‑in‑class observability tooling.

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 pr...