Overview
GitHub is changing the way the world builds software and we want you to help change the way we build GitHub. We’re looking for an engineer to work with a dynamic and distributed group of engineers building and improving our platform.
We empower developers and organizations to integrate their products and build their businesses on the GitHub Platform. Help us develop the workflows, tools, payment solutions and APIs to build and run GitHub Apps and OAuth Apps so that our integrators can realize their full potential on our platform.
The GitHub Ecosystem team is highly distributed. You should thrive in an environment of asynchronous communication. We expect you to have strong written and verbal communication skills and be able to build working relationships with coworkers in locations around the globe. As an Ecosystem Engineer, you’ll always be challenged to solve unique and interesting problems that have a real impact on how your co-workers and GitHub integrators build software.
Responsibilities:
- Writing robust, maintainable backend code.
- Maintaining and improving APIs used by both GitHub and external integrators.
- Exploring the technical tradeoffs of every decision.
- Reviewing code from other engineers.
- Improving the scalability and performance for our platform.
Minimum Qualifications:
- 1-3 years building web applications.
- Experience with Go or Ruby on Rails.
- Experience with Git and GitHub.
- Experience with relational databases.
- Experience with API design.
- Ability to empathize with a diverse range of engineers.
- You are known for being a great communicator.
Preferred Qualifications:
- You have remote work experience.
- You have maintained a public API.
Who We Are:
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over 24 million people use GitHub to build amazing things together across 67 million repositories. With the collaborative features of GitHub.com and GitHub Business, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write faster, better code.
What We Value:
Collaboration: We believe the best work is done together.
Empathy: We believe in putting people first.
Quality: We believe in setting the standard for excellence.
Positive Impact: We believe in making the world a better place through our work.
Shipping: We believe in creating things for the people using them.
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 over half of our Hubbers work, snack, and create daily. The other half of our Hubbers work remotely in 18 countries across the globe. Here is a complete list of where we can hire!
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.