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Senior Software Engineer, Code Scanning

Posted 14 days ago
$124K - $329K per year
5-10 years experience
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AI Summary

Design, develop, and scale high-quality services for GitHub's Code Scanning feature while integrating AI-first capabilities. Provide technical leadership, mentor team members, and ensure system reliability through instrumentation and incident response.

About GitHub

GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development — powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 180 million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate, and more than 77,000 organisations have adopted GitHub Copilot.

Locations

In this role you can work from Remote, United States

Overview

 In the GitHub Code Scanning team, we are passionate about making the world’s software - both Open Source and Enterprise - secure and high quality. We believe that the best way to accomplish this is to detect security and quality issues early in the development process, and actively facilitate their remediation as part of the developer workflow. 

 

Our team develops and operates the Code Scanning and Code Quality products that are part of GitHub’s Code Security offering. We use world-class static analysis research and technology to deeply analyze code, enabling the early detection of security vulnerabilities and other bugs that testing and day-to-day use have missed. This role will be involved in the design, rollout and support of highly performant, highly scalable, and highly available services to make found-means-fixed a reality leveraging the power of agentic AI. 

 

Come join our engineering team and help design, develop, and scale GitHub's Code Scanning feature. You'll be working in a full-stack agile engineering team that's part of the larger Code Scanning group working in Security Products. You'll work with and learn from Senior and Staff engineers as well as influence team and product direction. In addition, we support and reward spending time on improving diversity, inclusion, and belonging, as well as other important improvement-work outside your core role as a software engineer. 

 

We work as a distributed group within a distributed company. Many of our team members live in Europe and on the east coast of the US and Canada, and while we do have some offices, all our meetings are location-agnostic and happen online. We operate with a high degree of autonomy and trust, and we have a significant level of influence on the product and technical direction of Code Scanning, as well as the broader Security Products at GitHub. We value learning, introspection and reflection, and we’re always looking for ways to improve as a team and as individuals, so candor and a culture that values the safety to speak up are highly important to us. 


Responsibilities

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

  • Build and integrate AI agents and AI-first features that expand the capabilities of code analysis and create new ways for developers to find, understand, and fix security issues.

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

  • Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews to encourage the growth of others.

  • Own and advocate for the health and quality of the systems that the team builds, including participating in on-call and first responder rotations.

  • Write architecture briefs and proposals, carry out code experiments, and build prototypes to learn how we can achieve planetary scale with our systems.

  • Design and implement GraphQL APIs and REST endpoints that serve as building blocks for product teams to build new features.

  • Maintain and extend Ruby on Rails applications and Go services.

  • Drive improvements to service reliability through instrumentation, monitoring, and SLO management.

  • Lead discussions for technical solutions within the team's area of responsibility and create proposals for architecture

  • Drive identification of dependencies during the design of products, applications, services, or platforms.

  • Participate in incident response, conduct root cause analysis, and contribute to postmortems.

  • Drive efforts to integrate instrumentation for gathering telemetry data on system behavior such as performance, reliability, availability, and usage.

  • 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 code 


Qualifications

Required/Minimum 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 field
    • OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Prefer candidates based out of East Coast
  • 2+ years of experience building end to end applications leveraging agentic AI
  • 2+ years of experience building web applications in either Ruby or Go
  • 2+ years of experience developing with relational databases
  • 2+ years of experience developing on large Ruby on Rails or React applications
  • 2+years of distributed systems experience and operating software at scale

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.

This position will be open for a minimum of 3 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

GitHub values

  • 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.

EEO Statement

GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don't discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!

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