Staff Software Engineer, Traffic Team

In this Staff Software Engineer role on the Traffic Team, you will help design and fortify the edge-scale traffic platform that underpins GitHub’s globally used services. You’ll collaborate with a distributed, remote-first team to deliver scalable, reliable load-balancing and routing solutions, shaping how millions of developers interact with GitHub. You’ll lead architectural decisions, mentor peers, and own impactful improvements to ensure performance and resiliency at global scale. This is an opportunity to directly influence GitHub’s infrastructure and developer experience.

• competitive pay
• generous learning and growth opportunities
• excellent benefits
• remote-first work environment

• Lead technical decisions and architecture for traffic-related systems
• Design and implement scalable, reliable solutions (rate-limiting, routing, etc.)
• Maintain and improve the GitHub Load Balancer and traffic-management systems
• Write and review code in Go and Ruby on Rails
• Mentor engineers in technical and architectural decision making
• Participate in on-call rotation and team ceremonies

• 9+ years of software engineering experience with production software delivery, with proficiency in languages such as C/C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python; or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• 4+ years building and supporting large, high-traffic applications at scale in platform/infrastructure domains
• 4+ years supporting cloud-native workloads in Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud
• 2+ years maintaining a Load Balancer with abuse protection mechanisms (DDoS, load shedding)
• Experience with Go and Ruby/Rails is expected
• Strong written communication and ability to work with distributed teams
• Experience on-call rotations and high-visibility incident response

• Strong written communication
• Remote/distributed collaboration
• Mentorship and coaching
• Go
• Ruby on Rails
• Load balancing concepts