Software Engineer, Traffic Team

Git Hub 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 Git Hub to collaborate, and more than 77,000 organisations have adopted Git Hub Copilot.

In this role you can work from Remote, United Kingdom

Git Hub is changing the way the world builds software,and we want you to help lead this effort.

The Traffic Teamplays a critical role inGitHub'sscalability and resiliency.

Git Hub’s Traffic teamis responsible forevery packet into and out of Git Hub’s edge and delivers a foundational load balancing platform forall ofits services.

The team’sobjectiveis to ensure that Git Hub continues tooperateindustry-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 andmaintainpart of the platform that millions of developers worldwide rely on in their software development cycle.

The Traffic Teamis  highly distributed,and you will thrive in an environment of remote work and asynchronous communication.

You'reexpected to have strong written communication skills and be able to develop working relationships with coworkers in locations around the globe. As an engineer at Git Hub,you'llalways be challenged to solve interesting and novel problems that haveareal impact on how the world builds software.

• 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 Git Hub Load Balancer, and other systems related to traffic management at Git Hub
• 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

• 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…