GitHub

About GitHub

As the global home for all developers, GitHub is the complete AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 100 million people, including developers from 90 of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to build amazing things together across 330+ million repositories. With all the collaborative features of GitHub, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write faster, better code.

Locations

In this role you can work from Remote, United States

Overview

GitHub is looking for engineers to join the Traffic Engineering team within our larger Infrastructure Engineering organization. You will focus on the systems and tools that enable our engineers to operate and scale the world's largest code hosting platform. You will help develop and maintain our edge and internal load balancing and caching infrastructure. You will also help improve end user performance through the expansion our global network. Nearly every byte in and out of GitHub’s network will traverse systems you own.

The Infrastructure Engineering 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 real impact on how the world builds software.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain core components of the GitHub Edge stack.
• Cultivate GLB and other open source projects developed by GitHub and build things you are proud to share.
• Work closely with our application, network, observability, virtualization, and security teams to build secure, feature rich, and performant software in support of our global platform.
• Help to take your code to production, troubleshoot any issues that arise, and own fixing any associated bugs.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience with Linux kernel, network programming and/or HAProxy at scale
• 5+ years experience with core functionality of standard protocols such as TCP, UDP, HTTP, TLS, GRE, and/or DNS
• 5+ years proficiency in one (or more) language(s) like Ruby, Python, or Golang
• 3+ years deploying systems with Terraform, Ansible, and/or Puppet
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Application layer DDoS remediation techniques and experience, especially in a network edge environment
• Knowledge of when and how to deploy web acceleration techniques (e.g. caching, persistent connections, network stack tuning).
• Experience diagnosing and resolving performance problems at the intersection of software and hardware.
• You take a pragmatic approach to decision making and design choices.
• Azure technologies or cloud migrations of production environments
• Demonstrated experience with technologies such as anycast, BGP, XDP, eBPF, or P4.
• Experience using GitHub as a software development platform.
• Comfort working as part of a geographically distributed team and in a highly available environment.
• Hands-on experience running services in a distributed infrastructure.

Compensation Range

The base salary range for this job is USD $104,400.00 - USD $276,900.00 /Yr.

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.

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.

GitHub Leadership Principles

GitHub values

• Customer-obsessed
• Ship to learn
• Growth mindset
• Own the outcome
• Better together
• Diverse and inclusive

Manager fundamentals

• Model
• Coach
• Care

Leadership principles

• Create clarity
• Generate energy
• Deliver success

Who We Are

GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with 100 million developers and counting. We’re also home to the biggest open-source community on earth (and 99% of the world’s software has open-source code in its DNA). Many of the apps and programs you use every day are built on GitHub.

Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!).

At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We’re remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are—because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms.

Join us, and let’s change the world, together.

EEO Statement

GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don't discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!