What you'll do
- Design, develop, and ship highly scalable and performant code scanning services within GitHub's Security Products.
- Collaborate in a full-stack agile team and contribute to both backend services and frontend APIs using Ruby on Rails and Go.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship, including code reviews and architectural proposals.
- Ensure system reliability and quality through monitoring, instrumentation, SLO management, and incident response.
- Drive innovation by building prototypes and integrating agentic AI to enhance code scanning capabilities.
What you should know
- This role offers opportunities to work on cutting-edge AI-driven security products impacting millions of developers worldwide.
- Candidates should be prepared for a high-autonomy environment with distributed teams primarily across the US East Coast and Europe.
- The position involves on-call rotations and incident management, requiring ownership of system health and reliability.
- Applicants will engage in cross-functional collaboration and have influence over product and technical direction.
- The role encourages contributions beyond coding, including diversity and inclusion initiatives and continuous team improvement.
About the company
- GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with over 150 million developers and extensive open-source community influence.
- The company values a customer-obsessed, growth mindset culture focused on diversity, inclusion, and collaboration.
- GitHub operates as a remote-first, distributed company with a strong emphasis on autonomy, trust, and psychological safety.
- They prioritize continuous learning, introspection, and innovation in both product and engineering teams.
- GitHub is part of the broader software development ecosystem, serving over 90% of Fortune 100 companies.
Key required skills
Ruby on RailsGoGraphQLREST APIDistributed systemsAgentic AICI/CD