Staff Software Engineer Object Storage and Search Infrastructure
Github (View all Jobs)
Remote - United States
Interview Process
1. Take-home exercise 2. Code review and technical discussions.
Salary
$104,400.00
Programming Languages Mentioned
Java, JavaScript, Ruby
GitHub is the home for software development, where developers collaborate to build some of the world's most important software. The storage of the various assets that power developer collaboration is a key issue to solve in order to enable developers to store and consume assets during their SDLC. At GitHub, we want to give the community the tools it needs to store all the assets we all depend on.
As a Staff Software Engineer on the Object Storage team you will be a part of the team that builds abstractions to store various different sources of data across many of Github’s services. You will help guarantee the availability of stored assets to be written and accessed in the various GitHub deployment models, from github.com to GitHub Enterprise Server.
Responsibilities
- Write highly performant features for storing and retrieving assets at GitHub scale, petabytes of data are stored and accessed millions of times a day.
- You will be the technical lead within the team, expected to build scalable solutions to difficult problems related to storing various assets at github.
- Help us architect the best solutions to store and access data, when and how to best cache assets
- Engage with storage and CDN providers to create solutions that are “invisible” to our developers
Minimum Requirements
- 8 years of experience in distributed backend systems
- Experience in taking a large, highly visible project through established milestones to meet organizational deliverables
Nice to Haves
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
- Significant experience with Ruby, Go, Java, etc
- Experience with ElasticSearch
- Experience mentoring junior and mid-level engineers
- Providing significant technical leadership on projects
- Experience with a public cloud provider (Azure, etc)
Minimum salary of $104,400.00 to maximum $234,300.00
At GitHub certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role.
Location: In this role, you can work remotely from anywhere in the United States or onsite in one of GitHub’s U.S. offices (San Francisco, Bellevue, Raleigh).
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Who We Are:
GitHub is the developer company. We make it easier for developers to be developers: to work together, to solve challenging problems, and to create the world’s most important technologies. We foster a collaborative community that can come together—as individuals and in teams—to create the future of software and make a difference in the world.
Leadership Principles:
Customer Obsessed - Trust by Default - Ship to Learn - Own the Outcome - Growth Mindset - Global Product, Global Team - Anything is Possible - Practice Kindness
Why You Should Join:
At GitHub, we constantly strive to create an environment that allows our employees (Hubbers) to do the best work of their lives. We've designed one of the coolest workspaces in San Francisco (HQ), where many Hubbers work, snack, and create daily. The rest of our Hubbers work remotely around the globe. Check out an updated list of where we can hire here: https://github.com/about/careers/remote
We are also committed to keeping Hubbers healthy, motivated, focused and creative. We've designed our top-notch benefits program with these goals in mind. In a nutshell, we've built a place where we truly love working, we think you will too.
GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don't discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!
Please note that benefits vary by country. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask your Talent Partner.
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