Staff Software Engineer

About GitHub

We are expanding our Engineering team with experienced professionals in distributed systems, container orchestration, and cloud infrastructure. As a Staff Software Engineer within the GitHub Actions Team, you will architect high-performance CI/CD workflows powering millions of developers globally.

Your Responsibilities:

• Award-Winning Systems: Design, develop, test, and ship scalable solutions supporting billions of monthly jobs in our core infrastructure services.
• Tech Leadership: Provide mentorship, conduct code reviews, and lead technical initiatives across distributed teams to produce extensible, maintainable code.
• Security Champion: Design isolation mechanisms for untrusted code execution within Actions, partnering with security teams to protect against vulnerabilities in enterprise environments.
• Operational Excellence: Improve system reliability and establish best practices for monitoring, alerting, and runbooks across our global infrastructure services.