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**About GitHub** As the global home for all developers, GitHub is the complete AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 150+ million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate and experiment across 420+ million repositories. With all the collaborative features of GitHub, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write faster, better code. • *Locations** In this role you can work from Remote, United States • *Overview** We're building the bridges to help customers build and deliver software using GitHub. As a Software Engineer III on the Migration Tools team, you'll design and implement a secure, reliable, and performant platform that directly impacts developers worldwide, ensuring that migrations to GitHub are frictionless and of high fidelity. At GitHub, you'll collaborate with a distributed, diverse, and passionate team of engineers and designers, delivering services that millions of developers depend on daily. In this role, you'll design, prototype, implement, ship, and support highly performant, inspiring experiences that enhance collaboration and productivity for developers everywhere. We're looking for creative problem solvers and diverse thinkers who value culture as much as customers and features. We believe how we work is just as important as what we deliver. Big vision, shared purpose, passion for quality, curiosity, dedication, and investment in fun and collaboration are what drive great results. Great products reflect the teams that build them-come join us! • *Responsibilities** + Own and advocate for the health and quality of the systems that the team builds, including participating in on-call rotations and responding to incidents as necessary. + Design, develop and ship high-quality technical solutions that scale and interact with multiple GitHub services. + Drive continued investment in the availability, security, and observability of the migration service + Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement innovative solutions. + Provide technical leadership and code reviews to encourage the growth of others. + Write design documents and proposals, guiding the service architecture at a component level. + Design and implement APIs to facilitate seamless integration with other systems and services + Utilize CI/CD tools to set up automated pipelines for continuous integration and delivery. + Become intimately familiar with the systems you build and take pride in writing maintainable, tested code. • *Qualifications** • *Required Qualifications:** + 4+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python + OR Associate's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years experience + OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 2+ years experience in Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python + OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field + OR equivalent experience. • *Preferred Qualifications:** + Proficiency in programming languages such as Go, Ruby, and TypeScript + Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g. Azure, AWS, or GCP) and developing scalable applications upon them + Proven incident response experience including an ability to mitigate impact under pressure + Excellent written and verbal communication skills + Prior experience with best practices when working and communicating with a remote team • *Compensation Range** The base salary range for this job is USD $97,900.00 - USD $259,900.00 /Yr. These 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. • *GitHub values** + Customer-obsessed + Ship to learn + Growth mindset + Own the outcome + Better together + Diverse and inclusive • *Manager fundamentals** + Model + Coach + Care • *Leadership principles** + Create clarity + Generate energy + Deliver success • *Who 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. Our 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. Join us, and let's change the world, together. • *EEO 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. 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!

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