Principal Software Engineer- GitHub India

About this role

Join us to help shape the future of software development and make a difference for millions of developers around the world. Lead and influence system architecture design for complex products and solutions, ensuring they meet security, compliance, and performance requirements. Establish and mentor best practices for testing, performance tuning, and code quality, defining success metrics and ensuring maintainability across dependencies

Provide technical leadership during code reviews to ensure reliability, scalability, and alignment with product goals. Partner with product managers and technical leads to define service requirements and incorporate feedback into future designs. Act as an expert in debugging tools and methods, leading proactive and reactive development to resolve issues across teams

Optimize deployments and runtime performance to meet business objectives, ensuring safe rollouts aligned with GitHub's standards. Drive improvements in development quality and team performance through tooling, automation, and knowledge sharing. Lead product refinement through telemetry analysis, performance metrics, and experimentation frameworks to inform engineering decisions

Develop strategies to identify and mitigate technical risks, including frameworks for risk assessment and contingency planning. Shape the strategic vision for technology and product development, identifying opportunities for innovation and leading initiatives aligned with GitHub's long-term goals. 11+ years' experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline Proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python Experience building and operating production CI/CD or release pipelines for complex distributed systems

Enterprise experience contributing technical solutions to high throughput services in production environments, such as systems profiling

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