Senior Software Engineer, Observability Delivery
3wGitHub
United States - Remote· USD $124K - USD $329K
About GitHub
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Location:
Remote, United States
Overview
GitHub’s Observability Delivery team builds company-wide pipelines for logs, metrics, traces, and exceptions. We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer who enjoys solving challenges across software and infrastructure. You’ll write and operate services, deploy observability tools, and make architectural decisions about telemetry systems while partnering with service teams throughout GitHub.
Responsibilities
Design, build, and operate high-scale pipelines for logs, metrics, traces, and exceptions
Lead cross-team work to identify scaling bottlenecks and improve telemetry collection
Write and maintain production software, primarily in Go and Ruby
Work across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, networking, and service connectivity
Partner with service teams to understand their observability needs
Own system health through monitoring, incident response, and on-call participation
Provide technical leadership through design proposals, reviews, and mentoring
Required Qualifications
6+ years experience in Software Engineering or related field (or equivalent education/experience combination)
Proven experience coding in languages such as C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
3+ years building and operating production services in a cloud or large-scale distributed environment
2+ years deploying or troubleshooting production workloads with Kubernetes or comparable container orchestration
2+ years developing production software in Go, Ruby, or comparable language
Preferred:
Experience building shared platforms used by other engineering teams
Experience with logging, metrics, or distributed tracing systems (OpenTelemetry concepts)
Experience operating telemetry pipelines (Datadog or comparable tools)
Experience with Azure or another major cloud platform
Familiarity with networking and distributed-systems operations
Experience leading technical work across teams and mentoring engineers