Senior Software Engineer

Role Overview

As a Senior Software Engineer on the GitHub Notifications team, you'll work on distributed systems that operate at massive scale and touch every GitHub user. You'll tackle challenges in event processing, data pipeline reliability, and real-time delivery — building the infrastructure that powers how humans and agents coordinate work.

What You Will Do

You'll work on Notifications and deliver customer value with everything you do. This includes building and operating distributed systems, improving the reliability and performance of notification delivery pipelines, and helping evolve the notification layer to support new kinds of events and collaboration patterns.

Why It Might Be a Fit

This role is for someone who brings strong systems thinking, cares about operational excellence, and is excited about building the distributed systems foundation for human-agent collaboration at scale. You'll have real ownership from day one, working across a multi-service architecture that includes event processing pipelines, delivery systems, and the notification UIs on github.com.

Requirements

• 6+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline
• 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

Benefits

• Annual bonus
• Stock
• Sales incentives based on revenue or utilization
• Competitive pay
• Generous learning and growth opportunities
• Excellent benefits