About this role

GitHub is hiring a senior-level Software Engineer as a remote position. The posting calls out experience with Python, Ruby, Bash, Git.

Role: Software Engineer
Function: software engineering
Level: senior
Track: Individual contributor
Location: United States
Work mode: Remote
Department: Engineering
Posted: Feb 19, 2026

AI Summary

Design and build physical infrastructure systems, frameworks, and tools for GitHub's data centers. Lead capacity planning, implement security measures, establish monitoring systems, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize infrastructure performance and scalability.

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Job description

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About GitHub

GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development — powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 180 million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate, and more than 77,000 organisations have adopted GitHub Copilot.

Locations

In this role you can work from Remote, United States

Overview

GitHub is growing its Engineering team and we're seeking experienced professionals to elevate our Physical Infrastructure efforts. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design, build, and enhance physical infrastructure frameworks and tools, ensuring scalable and efficient data centers. The ideal candidate will be a key contributor to enhancing GitHub’s physical infrastructure, ensuring scalability and efficiency while gaining valuable experience in data center architecture, hardware innovation, and cross-functional collaboration to support developers globally.

As an Infrastructure Engineer, you will report into GitHub's larger Platform organization. Platform is a distributed group that owns internal services, tools, and infrastructure used to build, deploy, and operate the services that make up GitHub. Built in our own data centers with a variety of open source software, our services are used by dozens of engineering teams across the company. We strive to act as a productivity multiplier by offering our customers the tools they need to deliver their services, allowing them to focus more on product.

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