Staff Software Engineer, Enterprise Products

The GitHub Enterprise Cloud Platform team sets the technical direction for the systems that provision, automate, and operate GitHub's regional deployments at scale, serving customers with data residency and regional control requirements. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will define and drive the technical strategy for regional infrastructure, leading architecture decisions across provisioning, automation, service onboarding, and operational resilience, and owning large cross-cutting initiatives end to end with high autonomy.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and execution for large platform initiatives across regional deployments.
• Define and drive the technical strategy for provisioning, capacity management, and service onboarding at scale.
• Set technical direction across multiple repositories and partner teams.
• Shape the platform's reliability, scalability, and operational model as it grows.
• Identify and address architectural gaps, cross-service dependencies, and systemic risks before they become incidents.
• Create durable patterns, frameworks, and documentation that enable other engineers and teams to operate independently.
• Mentor engineers and raise the bar for system design, incident response, and cross-team execution.
• Represent the team's technical perspective in leadership discussions and cross-org planning.

Qualifications

• 9+ years of software engineering experience delivering production software in languages such as Go, Ruby, Rust, Python, C#, or Java.
• 3+ years with infrastructure-as-code, provisioning automation, or platform orchestration (Terraform, Bicep, Pulumi).
• 2+ years leveraging AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity and engineering workflows.
• Ability to operate with high autonomy and identify the highest-leverage investments for the platform.
• Preferred: experience with multi-region or data-residency-aware architectures and operating platforms at significant scale.