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Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GitHub is the global home for developers, providing an AI-powered platform to build and secure software. They are seeking a Security Engineer III to modernize and maintain security infrastructure while collaborating with Security and Engineering teams to identify areas for improvement. Responsibilities • Contributes to processes for the technical solutions of a product/feature within Secure Access Engineering’s area of responsibility and helps to create proposals for architecture by testing design hypotheses and helping to refine code plans, with technical leadership from others. • Creates a clear and articulated plan for testing and assuring quality of solutions, and defines success metrics for quality. • Contributes to the identification of dependencies during the design of a product area with little oversight. • Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable. Writes and learns to create code that is extensible and maintainable. • Supports efforts to apply debugging tools and examines logs, telemetry, and other methods to verify assumptions proactively before issues occur and reactively as issues occur for product features. • Maintains operations of live service as issues arise on a rotational, on-call basis. • Acts as a First Responder for their area of ownership and guides other engineers by developing and following playbooks, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions. • Identifies areas of efforts to integrate instrumentation for gathering telemetry data on system behavior such as performance, reliability, availability, usage, and safety mechanisms. • Builds knowledge, shares new ideas, and shares pinpoints of engineering tool gaps to improve software developer tools to support other programs, tools, and applications to create, debug, and maintain code for complex product features. Skills • 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 equivalent experience. • Experience building highly available and secure systems at scale. • Experience with Kubernetes and Docker. • Experience with configuration/orchestration management software such as Puppet, Chef, or Ansible. • Experience with secrets management tools, such as HashiCorp Vault. • Experience with infrastructure services such as LDAP, SSH, VPN, HTTP proxies. • Experience with service mesh implementations, such as Tailscale. • Experience with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or a similar cloud provider. Education Requirements • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field Benefits • Annual bonus • Stock • Learning and growth opportunities Company Overview • GitHub is a software company that offers code hosting services that allow developers to build software for open-source and private projects. It is a sub-organization of Microsoft. It was founded in 2008, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is https://github.com. Company H1B Sponsorship • GitHub has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 23 in 2025, 17 in 2024, 14 in 2023, 20 in 2022, 20 in 2021, 10 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.

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