Staff Software Engineer, Traffic Team

Responsibilities

Lead technical architecture and design for scalable traffic management systems including load balancing and rate-limiting. Mentor engineers and participate in on-call rotations to ensure the reliability and performance of GitHub's global traffic infrastructure.

Requirements

Requires 3-9 years of software engineering experience depending on educational background, with expertise in building high-traffic applications. Must have proven experience with cloud-native workloads and load balancing technologies.

Skills

• Go
• Ruby
• Rails
• Load balancing
• Distributed systems
• Cloud native
• Azure
• AWS
• Google Cloud
• Rate-limiting
• DDoS protection
• HAProxy
• Software architecture
• Scalability
• Resiliency

Benefits

• Annual bonus
• Stock options
• Learning and growth opportunities
• Competitive pay

About this role

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

GitHub is changing the way the world builds software, and we want you to help lead this effort.
The Traffic Team plays a critical role in GitHub's scalability and resiliency. GitHub’s Traffic team is responsible for every packet into and out of GitHub’s edge and delivers a foundational load balancing platform for all of its services. The team’s objective is to ensure that GitHub continues to operate industry-leading services at global scale, and to ensure internal engineering teams have the tools and processes necessary to build on top of our platform with as little friction as possible.
As a Staff Software Engineer on the Traffic Team, you will work closely with a distributed, diverse, and passionate team of engineers to improve and maintain part of the platform that millions of developers worldwide rely on in their software development cycle.
The Traffic Team is highly distributed, and you will thrive in an environment of remote work and asynchronous communication. You're expected to have strong written communication skills and be able to develop working relationships with coworkers in locations around the globe. As an engineer at GitHub, you'll always be challenged to solve interesting and novel problems that have a real impact on how the world builds software.

Responsibilities

Lead technical decision making and architecture
Design and implement scalable, reliable and performant solutions for complex problems like rate-limiting, routing, etc.
Maintain and improve the GitHub Load Balancer, and other systems related to traffic management at GitHub
Write, review, and maintain code primary in Go and Ruby & Rails
Mentor other engineers in their technical and architectural decision making
Participate in the on-call rotation, and team meetings

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:
9+ 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 8+ 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 7+ 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 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 Doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ 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 equivalent experience.
4+ years building and supporting large, high traffic applications at scale within platform/infrastructure domains
4+ years supporting and building cloud native workloads in Azure, AWS or Google Cloud
2+ years experience maintaining a Load Balancer with proven experience in abuse protection mechanisms for DDoS attacks, load shedding, etc.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with HAProxy, or any other open-source Load Balancer
2+ Years of Golang experience
Experience building or maintaining planetary scale engineering systems
Experience working with a remote, distributed team
Strong written and verbal communication skills

Compensation Range

The base salary range for this job is USD $140,400.00 - USD $372,300.00 /Yr.

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.

This position will be open for a minimum of 3 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
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