Software Engineer, Git Systems

About Git Hub 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.

Locations In this role you can work from Remote, United Kingdom Overview Git Hub  is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Git Systems Engineering team, which runs the largest code-hosting platform in the world, part of our Platform and Infrastructure organization. Our group is responsible for the services that store and serve Git repositories, both directly to users and to other layers in the Git Hub software stack.

We build the various microservices, protocols, proxies, and control systems that power Git operations at Git Hub and operate them  will work on real-world, large-scale distributed systems and help design, build, and support highly available, performant, and scalable services that enable the next generation of AI-driven software development by improving Git code-hosting platform through wide-reaching, cross-team work.

Our group is highly distributed and the right candidate will thrive in an environment of asynchronous communication. We expect you to have excellent written communication skills and be able to create working relationships with coworkers in locations around the globe. Prior experience solving problems with large-scale, distributed systems is preferred. (i.e. Petabytes of storage, millions of objects, low latency, high throughput with millions of QPS) Responsibilities Design, develop, test, and ship high-quality technical solutions that scale across multiple Git Hub services;

build deep familiarity with the systems you own; and write maintainable code. Document architectural designs and proposals, run targeted experiments, and validate approaches with prototypes. Lead by example and mentor others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products and integrated with downstream dependencies. Provide technical leadership through code reviews for solutions and product areas to ensure quality standards are met, while designing for high availability and Git Hub-scale performance.

Coordinate with engineering and product owners to define, prioritize, and deliver projects to meet business goals. Maintain operations of live services as issues arise on a rotational, on-call basis. Implement and support others to build solutions and mitigations to complex issues impacting the performance or functionality of Live Site services. Cultivate an environment where team members are empowered and demonstrate a strong sense of ownership and belonging.

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…