Software Engineer II Github
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Job Summary
As part of this team you will work on some mission-critical platform services that power GitHubs global developer ecosystem. This team owns and operates high-scale distributed systems including GitHub Packages GitHub Pages Email Services and other foundational developer experience tools and platforms. These services support billions of requests stringent reliability requirements and developer workflows used worldwide.
As an Engineer on this team you will work on some of GitHubs most challenging scale reliability and operational excellence problems while collaborating with engineers across GitHub and Microsoft.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities
Design build and operate highly available distributed systems that power critical GitHub platform services.
Develop scalable backend services and platform capabilities using modern engineering practices automation and observability.
Improve service reliability performance latency and operational efficiency for mission-critical workloads.
Own features and services throughout their lifecycle from design and implementation through production support and live-site excellence.
Build automation that reduces operational overhead and improves engineering productivity.
Investigate and resolve complex production issues across distributed systems storage networking and service infrastructure.
Partner with engineers across GitHub and Microsoft to deliver large-scale platform investments and modernization efforts.
Leverage AI-assisted engineering workflows to improve software delivery testing incident response and operational excellence.
Qualifications
Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or related field.
3 years of software engineering experience building production systems.
Strong coding skills in one or more programming languages such as C# Java Go C Python or similar.
Strong understanding of data structures algorithms concurrency and distributed systems fundamentals.
Experience building or operating large-scale backend services cloud systems or platform infrastructure.
Familiarity with databases caching systems messaging technologies and service-oriented architectures.
Demonstrated problem-solving skills and ability to operate effectively in complex technical environments.
Preferred
Experience with cloud platforms and containerized services.
Experience with high-throughput highly available internet-scale systems.
Knowledge of observability incident management reliability engineering and production operations.
Experience with GitHub CI/CD systems developer platforms or package management ecosystems.
Familiarity with Go Ruby MySQL Kubernetes distributed storage or service infrastructure
What Makes This Role Exciting
Work on services operating at hyperscale with billions of requests and global developer impact.
Own production systems where reliability performance and operational excellence directly affect millions of developers.
Drive end-to-end engineering ownership rather than working on isolated components.
Collaborate closely with GitHub engineering teams worldwide.
Solve complex distributed systems concurrency scalability and reliability challenges every day.
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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry citizenship color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information immigration status marital status medical condition national origin physical or mental disability political affiliation protected veteran or military status race ethnicity religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process read more about requesting accommodations.
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