Senior Software Engineer, Ecosystem Events

About GitHub

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Locations

In this role you can work from Remote, Canada

Overview

As a software engineer on GitHub’s Ecosystem Events team, you will build and operate the webhooks platform that powers third-party integrations and many of GitHub’s flagship products. You will work with a distributed team of engineers on the event-driven systems developers use to integrate with GitHub.

In this role, you will design, implement, ship, and support improvements to our webhook services and APIs. You will improve how the platform handles growing traffic, investigate delivery problems, and make our services easier to operate. Our tech stack is primarily Go and Ruby. We work closely with the teams responsible for databases, queues, networking, and compute infrastructure to deliver webhooks reliably at scale.

We are looking for engineers who enjoy solving distributed systems problems and care about the developers who depend on our events and integrations. Our team works remotely and relies on clear written communication and asynchronous collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and ship improvements to GitHub’s webhook services and APIs.
• Build and maintain event-driven systems that handle high volumes of traffic reliably.
• Debug problems across service boundaries and improve the tooling and observability needed to investigate them.
• Work with infrastructure partners to improve platform performance and resolve dependencies.
• Support teams across GitHub as they build webhook integrations.
• Provide technical leadership and help other engineers grow through mentoring, pairing, and code reviews.
• Maintain service health and respond to production problems through on-call and first responder rotations.
• Write architecture proposals and use experiments and prototypes to evaluate approaches to scaling our systems.
• Write maintainable code, test it, and use CI/CD pipelines to deliver changes safely.

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 field

• OR equivalent experience.

• 2+ years experience maintaining highly available, high-volume platforms.

• 2+ years experience building and maintaining event-driven systems.

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 queuing or streaming systems such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Experience with relational or distributed databases.
• Experience working on distributed teams, with strong written and verbal communication skills.

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.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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!