Software Engineer II, Identity Core

GitHub, Inc.

1d • Remote

About The Position

As a software engineer at GitHub, you will enhance the collaboration experience at GitHub by working closely with a community of engineers and designers with a distributed, diverse, and passionate team delivering the services that millions of developers depend on. In this role, you will design, prototype, implement, ship, and support highly performant and inspiring user experiences with your team.
We are looking for creative problem solvers and diverse thinkers, people who care about culture as well as customers and features. We believe that how we do things is as important as what we do. Big vision, a common purpose, passion for quality, curiosity, dedication, and investment in fun and collaboration are what lead to great results. Great products reflect the teams that build them.

Requirements

• 2+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining 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 1+ year(s) experience
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field.
• OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years building and supporting large, high traffic applications at scale
• Experience utilizing AI or agentic workflows for implementation and enhancing impact.
• Experience with Git and GitHub.

Nice To Haves

• Professional experience coding in React.js, Ruby, Go, and/or Rails.
• Experience working cross functionally to deliver delightful customer experiences.
• Understanding of REST principles and experience with backend APIs.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Passionate about healthy team culture and collaboration.
• Experience working with a remote, distributed team.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and ship high-quality technical solutions that scale across multiple GitHub services.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement innovative solutions.
• 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 APIs to facilitate seamless integration between software components.
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree