Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development, and they are seeking a Staff Software Engineer for their Cloud Foundations team. This role involves leading the technical direction of foundational compute infrastructure, designing and implementing scalable solutions, and mentoring other engineers while ensuring the reliability and performance of systems used by internal teams.
Responsibilities
- Lead technical decision making and architecture across the Cloud Foundations surface area, including compute lifecycle, configuration management, infrastructure orchestration, and fleet inventory
- Design and implement scalable, reliable and performant solutions for complex problems such as fleet-wide reboot orchestration, immutable image pipelines, multi-region state management, and service discovery at scale
- Define and build GitHub's Azure paved paths, including event-driven compute, and cloud-native patterns
- Drive the evolution of foundational systems from data center to Azure-native equivalents
- Write, review, and maintain code primarily in Go, and partner with the team on language and tooling choices for new systems
- Mentor other engineers in their technical and architectural decision making, and raise the engineering bar through code review and design feedback
- Participate in on-call rotations for the services and systems owned by the team, leading incident response on hard problems and driving the follow-up work that prevents repeat issues
Skills
- 9+ 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 8+ 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 or related field AND 7+ 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 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 Doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ 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 equivalent experience
- 4+ years building and supporting large, high traffic applications at scale within platform/infrastructure domains
- 4+ years supporting and building cloud native workloads in Azure, AWS or Google Cloud
- 2+ years experience operating fleet-scale compute infrastructure such as hypervisor platforms, configuration management systems, or orchestration tooling
- 6+ years experience with Azure, or any other Cloud Provider
- Experience designing or operating paved-path platforms on Azure (Functions, App Service, AKS) or comparable offerings on AWS or GCP
- Experience with Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or comparable configuration management systems at fleet scale
- Experience building or maintaining planetary scale engineering systems
- Experience working with a remote, distributed team
Benefits
- Annual bonus
- Stock
- Sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role
- Competitive pay
- Generous learning and growth opportunities
- Excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are
- Remote-first
Company Overview
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. It was founded in 2008, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is https://github.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
GitHub has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 3 in 2026, 26 in 2025, 17 in 2024, 14 in 2023, 20 in 2022, 20 in 2021, 10 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.