{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"2ac48b165d9075af2c86366a","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/2ac48b165d9075af2c86366a","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/2ac48b165d9075af2c86366a","title":"Senior Software Engineer, Client Apps Platform","description":"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.\nLocations: In this role you can work from Remote, United States\nOverview:\nYou’ll join the Client Apps Platform team, the connective tissue between GitHub’s client applications (gh-CLI, Desktop, Mobile) and feature‑owning backend teams. You’ll build and operate Ruby and Go services, drive architecture and cross team design, and identify opportunities to extract shared platform capabilities to accelerate client teams. This role offers deep exposure to distributed systems, cross‑surface architecture, and influencing technical direction across organizational boundaries.\n\nAbout the Team\n\nThe Client Apps Platform team plays a unique role at GitHub. We focus on facilitation, collaboration, and thoughtful system design, helping navigate the creative tension between client experiences and backend capabilities while building shared platform solutions that scale across GitHub.\nResponsibilities:\nMaintain, extend, and operate production level Ruby and Go services powering first party client apps; write readable, testable, and maintainable code integrated with downstream dependencies.\nLead and facilitate technical design and architecture discussions across product, client app engineers, and domain service teams; propose, validate, and document architectural tradeoffs.\nTranslate client requirements into platform solutions; identify and drive extraction of common functionality from apps into shared platform components.\nCollaborate with domain teams to extend or integrate with GitHub’s Ruby on Rails monolith when additional domain bandwidth or migrations are required.\nDefine testing strategies, success metrics, SLOs, and safe rollout/rollback plans; monitor telemetry and service health to drive data informed decisions.\nServe on rotation as on-call/first-responder, lead incident response and postmortems, and implement long‑term reliability improvements.\nMentor engineers, participate in code reviews, and champion engineering excellence, automation, and observability across the platform.\nIdentify cross team dependencies, coordinate workstreams, and resolve conflicts to ensure solutions meet security, performance, and scalability needs.\nQualifications:\n\nRequired qualifications\n6+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with 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\nOR Associate’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with 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 OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with 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\nOR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 2+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with 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.\nOR Doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.\nOR equivalent experience.\nDemonstrated experience in software and system design for scalable, reliable services.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills with experience facilitating cross-team technical discussions.\nProven experience maintaining and operating live services, including monitoring, debugging, and incident response.\n\nPreferred qualifications\nHands-on experience with Go and/or Ruby (Ruby on Rails) in production.\nFamiliarity with GraphQL and RPC frameworks such as Twirp.\nExperience building platforms or infrastructure that support multiple client surfaces (mobile, desktop, CLI).\nExperience extracting shared libraries/platforms from application codebases and driving adoption.\nProven ability to work within and extend large existing codebases (e.g., monoliths).\nExperience defining SLOs, telemetry, and observability tooling.\nCompensation Range: The base salary range for this job is USD $124,000.00 - USD $329,200.00 /Yr.\n\nThese pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States. An individual's base pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant. At GitHub certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role.\n\nThis position will be open for a minimum of 3 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.\nGitHub Leadership Principles:\nGitHub values\nCustomer-obsessed\nShip to learn\nGrowth mindset\nOwn the outcome\nBetter together\nDiverse and inclusive\nManager fundamentals\nModel\nCoach\nCare\nLeadership principles\nCreate clarity\nGenerate energy\nDeliver success\nWho We Are: GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with 150 million developers and counting. We’re also home to the biggest open-source community on earth (and 99% of the world’s software has open-source code in its DNA). Many of the apps and programs you use every day are built on GitHub.\nOur teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!). At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We’re remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are—because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms.\nJoin us, and let’s change the world, together.\nEEO Statement: 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. 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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.\nLocations: In this role you can work from Remote, United States\nOverview:\nYou’ll join the Client Apps Platform team, the connective tissue between GitHub’s client applications (gh-CLI, Desktop, Mobile) and feature‑owning backend teams. You’ll build and operate Ruby and Go services, drive architecture and cross team design, and identify opportunities to extract shared platform capabilities to accelerate client teams. This role offers deep exposure to distributed systems, cross‑surface architecture, and influencing technical direction across organizational boundaries.\n\nAbout the Team\n\nThe Client Apps Platform team plays a unique role at GitHub. We focus on facilitation, collaboration, and thoughtful system design, helping navigate the creative tension between client experiences and backend capabilities while building shared platform solutions that scale across GitHub.\nResponsibilities:\nMaintain, extend, and operate production level Ruby and Go services powering first party client apps; write readable, testable, and maintainable code integrated with downstream dependencies.\nLead and facilitate technical design and architecture discussions across product, client app engineers, and domain service teams; propose, validate, and document architectural tradeoffs.\nTranslate client requirements into platform solutions; identify and drive extraction of common functionality from apps into shared platform components.\nCollaborate with domain teams to extend or integrate with GitHub’s Ruby on Rails monolith when additional domain bandwidth or migrations are required.\nDefine testing strategies, success metrics, SLOs, and safe rollout/rollback plans; monitor telemetry and service health to drive data informed decisions.\nServe on rotation as on-call/first-responder, lead incident response and postmortems, and implement long‑term reliability improvements.\nMentor engineers, participate in code reviews, and champion engineering excellence, automation, and observability across the platform.\nIdentify cross team dependencies, coordinate workstreams, and resolve conflicts to ensure solutions meet security, performance, and scalability needs.\nQualifications:\n\nRequired qualifications\n6+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with 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\nOR Associate’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with 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 OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with 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\nOR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 2+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with 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.\nOR Doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.\nOR equivalent experience.\nDemonstrated experience in software and system design for scalable, reliable services.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills with experience facilitating cross-team technical discussions.\nProven experience maintaining and operating live services, including monitoring, debugging, and incident response.\n\nPreferred qualifications\nHands-on experience with Go and/or Ruby (Ruby on Rails) in production.\nFamiliarity with GraphQL and RPC frameworks such as Twirp.\nExperience building platforms or infrastructure that support multiple client surfaces (mobile, desktop, CLI).\nExperience extracting shared libraries/platforms from application codebases and driving adoption.\nProven ability to work within and extend large existing codebases (e.g., monoliths).\nExperience defining SLOs, telemetry, and observability tooling.\nCompensation Range: The base salary range for this job is USD $124,000.00 - USD $329,200.00 /Yr.\n\nThese pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States. 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In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role.\n\nThis position will be open for a minimum of 3 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.\nGitHub Leadership Principles:\nGitHub values\nCustomer-obsessed\nShip to learn\nGrowth mindset\nOwn the outcome\nBetter together\nDiverse and inclusive\nManager fundamentals\nModel\nCoach\nCare\nLeadership principles\nCreate clarity\nGenerate energy\nDeliver success\nWho We Are: GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with 150 million developers and counting. We’re also home to the biggest open-source community on earth (and 99% of the world’s software has open-source code in its DNA). 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