Github
Overview
GitHub helps companies and organizations succeed by allowing them to build better software through powerful, flexible CI/CD and automation, directly in the developer workflow.
GitHub’s Field Architecture team is looking for automation software engineering professionals to join a new Operations and Reliability team. This team will be working to support, automate and improve the infrastructure. This role is an opportunity to learn and grow on multiple fronts.
As an automation engineer you’ll be responsible for writing critical software to streamline deployment, management and reporting necessary to run Github in a cloud environment at scale.
Most importantly you’ll help grow our culture of inclusion, collaboration and togetherness. We are a remote team and work with teammates across the world and in many different time zones. Mental health first is one of our team mantras. In a Covid world we want to build as healthy and sustainable a team as we can through empathy, flexible schedules and empowerment. Within those confines we are passionate about making a team that is scalable through shared knowledge and well defined best practices.
Our platform is helping deliver a cloud native experience to Github’s new SAAS offering. Infrastructure as code, managed cloud services, configurations and distributed security is where most of our time will be spent. Experience operating managed public services and building all the core components that help those services operate without human interaction will the focus of the role.
This role at GitHub is an opportunity to blend your system design, empathy, and software engineering skills on an ever-changing set of novel reliability and operations challenges. Join us on this journey and have a meaningful impact on how the world builds software.
The Job – what you’ll be doing:
- Identify and implement software components to automate the deployment, management, and maintenance of our new SaaS offering.
- Automate away as much of the team’s tasks and day to day operations as much as possible
- Identify and collaborate with support and product teams to put in place automation that could avoid or quickly solve new found problems
- Help drive new features, abilities and code changes into the core product with an operations focused point of view.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Experience with Git and GitHub
- Experience with at least one cloud platform, such as Azure
- Experience integration multiple services using APIs
- Comfort with the GNU/Linux operating system, particularly Ubuntu
- Experience with IaC frameworks
- Experience with scripting and automation, particularly bash
- Experience building infrastructure and automation
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with Azure (AAD, Network Security, Virtual Networks, Load Balancing)
- Experience building and deploying software in a SAAS environment
- Experience automating processes and reducing human-software interaction
It’s not expected that you have expertise in all of these areas – we’re looking for someone who is particularly strong in a few areas and has some interest and capabilities in others.
Ability to meet GitHub, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft, GitHub’s parent company, Cloud Screen upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
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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