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Locations

In this role you can work from Remote, United States

Overview

GitHub Notifications is the connective tissue of the developer workflow — delivering billions of signals every week across web, email, mobile, Slack, and Teams so developers never miss what matters. As we accelerate human-agent collaboration, these communication and coordination pipelines become even more critical.

As a Senior Software Engineer on this team, you'll work on distributed systems that operate at massive scale and touch every GitHub user. You'll tackle challenges in event processing, data pipeline reliability, and real-time delivery — building the infrastructure that powers how humans and agents coordinate work. You'll also help shape how this layer evolves to support new collaboration patterns as AI agents become first-class participants in developer workflows.

This is a team where reliability is a first-class concern and engineering craft matters deeply. You'll have real ownership from day one, working across a multi-service architecture that includes event processing pipelines, delivery systems, and the notification UIs on github.com. We're looking for someone who brings strong systems thinking, cares about operational excellence, and is excited about building the distributed systems foundation for human-agent collaboration at scale.

Responsibilities

As part of this team you'll work on Notifications and deliver customer value with everything we do.

This job provides an opportunity to:

• Build and operate distributed systems that deliver billions of notifications weekly, powering how humans and agents coordinate work across every surface
• Have a real impact, take on ownership of GitHub.com. Contribute to and improve our code base from day one
• Foster technical growth across the team by researching new approaches, sharing insights, and guiding their practical adoption
• Write, review and maintain code primarily in Ruby (Rails), Go, and JavaScript (React, TypeScript)
• Improve the reliability and performance of notification delivery pipelines, database infrastructure, and real-time processing systems
• Help evolve the notification layer to support new kinds of events and collaboration patterns as AI agents become participants in developer workflows
• Work closely with engineering leadership to guide technical investment and implement technical roadmaps and priorities
• Coordinate with engineering and product leads to define, prioritize, and task projects that help us meet business objectives
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews to encourage the growth of others

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 6+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, 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 5+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, 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 AND 2+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
  • OR Doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related fie
  • OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Minimum 2 years experience in one or more scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python, or a similar language)
• Minimum 2 years experience using general purpose programming languages (e.g., Go, Ruby, or a similar language).
• Minimum 3 years experience with cloud environments and/or Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF) concepts
• Experience with high-throughput event processing systems, message queues, or real-time delivery pipelines
• Interest in or experience with designing distributed systems that support human-agent collaboration patterns
• Track record of improving system availability and meeting SLO targets in production environments
• Experience with observability and incident response — you've debugged production issues under pressure and improved monitoring to prevent recurrence
• Experience working in distributed, remote-first teams across time zones

Compensation Range

The base salary range for this job is USD $124,000.00 - USD $329,200.00 /Yr.

These pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States. An individual's base pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant. At GitHub certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role.

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• Customer-obsessed
• Ship to learn
• Growth mindset
• Own the outcome
• Better together
• Diverse and inclusive

Manager fundamentals

• Model
• Coach
• Care

Leadership principles

• Create clarity
• Generate energy
• Deliver success

Who We Are

GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with 150 million developers and counting. We’re also home to the biggest open-source community on earth (and 99% of the world’s software has open-source code in its DNA). Many of the apps and programs you use every day are built on GitHub.
Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!). At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We’re remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are—because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms.
Join us, and let’s change the world, together.

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