Overview
The Platform team builds and maintains foundational authorization services and abstractions that power our products. We are responsible for the scalability and reliability of critical services that are used across GitHub and we advise engineering and product teams on how to best build their features upon our services. Join us if you are excited about building distributed systems at a global scale.
Our engineering organization is highly distributed. We expect you to have strong written communication skills and be able to build working relationships with coworkers in locations around the globe.
Responsibilities:
- Write robust, maintainable backend code
- Review code and participate in group discussions
- Improving the scalability and performance for our platform
- Advise engineering and product teams on integrating with our services to build their features
Minimum Qualifications:
- 3+ years experience building building applications at scale
- Experience with relational databases
- Experience with Golang
- Knowledge of standard methodologies: monitoring, alerting, metrics
- Ability to empathize with a wide range of engineers
- Strong written communication skills
Preferred Qualifications:
- Remote work experience
- Experience building systems to support large-scale Authorization
- Experience with Ruby
Who We Are:
GitHub is the developer company. We make it easier for developers to be developers: to work together, to solve challenging problems, and to create the world’s most important technologies. We foster a collaborative community that can come together—as individuals and in teams—to create the future of software and make a difference in the world.
Leadership Principles:
Customer Obsessed – Trust by Default – Ship to Learn – Own the Outcome – Growth Mindset – Global Product, Global Team – Anything is Possible – Practice Kindness
Why You Should Join:
At GitHub, we constantly strive to create an environment that allows our employees (Hubbers) to do the best work of their lives. We’ve designed one of the coolest workspaces in San Francisco (HQ), where many Hubbers work, snack, and create daily. The rest of our Hubbers work remotely around the globe. Check out an updated list of where we can hire here: https://github.com/about/careers/remote
We are also committed to keeping Hubbers healthy, motivated, focused and creative. We’ve designed our top-notch benefits program with these goals in mind. In a nutshell, we’ve built a place where we truly love working, we think you will too.
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!
Please note that benefits vary by country. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask your Talent Partner.
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