Staff Software Engineer

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 Join us in shaping the future of deployments at GitHub

The Deploys team owns and operates the systems that ship code to production for GitHub.com and its surrounding services - including deployment orchestration, philosophies, pre-staging, and testing environments deployed across GitHub. In this role you will design, build, and operate critical deployment infrastructure that serves every engineering team at GitHub. You’ll tackle challenges spanning Kubernetes orchestration, container lifecycle management, availability zone balancing, capacity planning, and CI/CD pipeline reliability — all at a scale where minutes of downtime have global impact

We are looking for creative problem solvers and diverse thinkers, people who care about culture as well as reliability. We believe that how we do things is as important as what we do. Big vision, a common purpose, passion for quality, curiosity, dedication, and investment in fun and collaboration are what lead to great results

Great infrastructure reflects the teams that build it. Responsibilities This job provides an opportunity to: Own and evolve our dx platforms that ship code to production for thousands of services Write, review, and maintain code primarily in Go and Ruby, with exposure to Kubernetes, Docker, Puppet, Datadog, and cloud infrastructure (Azure/AWS) Participate in on-call rotations and incident response, diagnosing and resolving production deployment issues under pressure Drive reliability improvements such as BCDR planning, compliance automation, and security upgrades. Write architecture briefs and proposals, carr

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