Software Engineer III, Migration Tools (Remote)

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Job Summary:

GitHub is the global home for developers, offering an AI-powered platform for building secure software. As a Software Engineer III on the Migration Tools team, you'll design and implement a platform that ensures smooth migrations to GitHub, collaborating with a diverse team to enhance developer productivity.

Responsibilities:

• Own and advocate for the health and quality of the systems that the team builds, including participating in on-call rotations and responding to incidents as necessary.

• Design, develop and ship high-quality technical solutions that scale and interact with multiple GitHub services.

• Drive continued investment in the availability, security, and observability of the migration service

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement innovative solutions.

• Provide technical leadership and code reviews to encourage the growth of others.

• Write design documents and proposals, guiding the service architecture at a component level.

• Design and implement APIs to facilitate seamless integration with other systems and services

• Utilize CI/CD tools to set up automated pipelines for continuous integration and delivery.

• Become intimately familiar with the systems you build and take pride in writing maintainable, tested code.

Qualifications:

Required:

• 4+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python

• OR Associate’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years experience

• OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 2+ years experience in Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python

• OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

• OR equivalent experience.

Preferred:

• Proficiency in programming languages such as Go, Ruby, and TypeScript

• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g. Azure, AWS, or GCP) and developing scalable applications upon them

• Proven incident response experience including an ability to mitigate impact under pressure

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Prior experience with best practices when working and communicating with a remote team

Company:

GitHub is a software company that offers code hosting services that allow developers to build software for open-source and private projects. It is a sub-organization of Microsoft. Founded in 2008, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a team of 501-1000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage. GitHub has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.