Staff Software Engineer, API Gateway Team

Tech Stack

Solid badges = required, outlined = preferred

Responsibilities

• Define the multi-year technical strategy and own the system architecture for the API Gateway and traffic management at GitHub, translating long-term vision into executable milestones across multiple teams.
• Author and drive architectural decisions (EDRs/ADRs) that become defaults adopted across multiple engineering groups, and lead critical design reviews that resolve disagreements through technical authority.
• Lead complex, cross-group reliability and availability efforts, reducing incident volume, improving on-call effectiveness, and designing telemetry that prevents systemic outages before they manifest.
• Design and implement scalable, reliable, and performant solutions for complex problems like rate-limiting, routing, and global traffic management at planetary scale; write and review code primarily in Go and Ruby & Rails.
• Establish engineering standards and best practices for traffic management, API design, and AI-assisted engineering patterns that are adopted across multiple groups at GitHub.

Soft Skills

Benefits

• 401k
• Dental
• Equity
• Health Insurance
• Learning Budget
• Remote Work
• Vision

Culture

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