Staff Software Engineer, Traffic Team

Overview

As a Staff Software Engineer on GitHub’s Traffic Team, you will help maintain and evolve the load-balancing and traffic-management platform that underpins global-scale software delivery. You’ll work with a distributed, remote-first team to design reliable, scalable solutions and mentor peers in technical and architectural decisions. The role blends hands-on engineering with shaping the platform’s evolution to serve millions of developers. You’ll engage across time zones, contributing to high-impact infrastructure that powers GitHub’s services.

Pay / Benefits

• remote-first culture
• competitive pay
• learning and growth opportunities
• excellent benefits
• flexible work arrangements
• opportunities to work on impactful infrastructure

Responsibilities

• Lead technical decision making and architecture
• Design and implement scalable, reliable and performant solutions (rate-limiting, routing)
• Maintain and improve the GitHub Load Balancer and related traffic systems
• Code primarily in Go and Ruby on Rails
• Mentor engineers on technical and architectural decisions
• Participate in on-call rotation and team meetings

Key requirements

• 9+ years of software engineering experience with production software delivery in multiple languages (C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, Python) or equivalent educational path with substantial industry experience
• 4+ years building and supporting large, high-traffic applications at scale in platform/infrastructure domains
• 4+ years supporting cloud-native workloads in Azure, AWS or Google Cloud
• 2+ years experience maintaining a Load Balancer with abuse protection mechanisms (DDoS, load shedding)
• Experience with distributed, remote teams and strong written communication

• strong written communication
• ability to collaborate across global locations
• mentorship and coaching
• Go
• Ruby
• Rails

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