Staff Production Engineer

Job Summary

Working remotely, the full-time Staff Production Engineer will embed with engineering teams to enhance the reliability, scalability, and operability of GitHub's production systems while owning complex production problems and designing long-term engineering solutions.

Key responsibilities

• Embed with engineering teams to improve the reliability, scalability, and operability of production systems
• Own complex production problems end-to-end, from debugging live incidents to designing engineering solutions
• Design, build, and operate software and infrastructure that enhances production operations

Required qualifications

• 9+ years of experience in Software Engineering or related technical discipline with proven production software coding experience in multiple languages
• Experience designing, operating, and debugging large-scale distributed systems
• Strong software engineering experience in modern programming languages such as Go, Rust, C++, Java, Python, or C#
• Experience with Linux, networking fundamentals, and systems performance
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction across teams without direct authority