Security Software Engineer, Vulnerability Management

Overview

 

Do you want to be part of the team enabling software development teams to do their best work, with the world’s most elegant, secure, reliable, and powerful developer platform?

GitHub is changing the way the world builds software. To accomplish this we run thousands of services. On the Vulnerability Management team we're focused on building automated platforms that enable us to maintain the quality and excellence of our products and services at incredible scale. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will work closely with a distributed, diverse, and passionate team of engineers to ensure GitHub remains a secure home for 100M+ developers.

The Vulnerability Management team is a fully remote team. We expect you to have the ability to communicate complex technical concepts and be able to create working relationships with coworkers in locations around the globe.

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 platforms reflect the teams that build them.

Responsibilities

 

• Lead technical decision making and architecture

• Architect and implement highly available distributed systems

• Mentor other engineers in their technical and architectural decision making

• Document the systems you help architect, build, and maintain

• Maintain and improve APIs used internally at GitHub

• Write, review, and maintain code primary in Python, Go and JavaScript

• Be a role model to create a culture of psychological safety both within the team and cross-team, where differing views can be shared and heard

Qualifications

 

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years extensive experience in web application development 
• 2+ years proficiency in building large, high volume web applications at scale
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience maintaining a critical public facing service
• Experience working with a remote, distributed team
• Experience using GraphQL in production environments
• Sound knowledge and proven experience with testing principles
• Experience promoting and implementing effective engineering practices and processes
• Ability to evaluate the trade-offs for building highly available distributed systems