About GitHub
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Locations
In this role you can work from Remote, United States
Overview
GitHub's Marketing Engineering team empowers GitHub's marketing organization to drive revenue and global impact by delivering scalable web infrastructure and tools that enable high-quality lead generation, compelling product storytelling, and seamless global launches.
As a Software Engineer III, you'll help shape the systems and experiences that connect millions of developers and businesses to GitHub. You'll collaborate across Revenue, Product, Design, and Leadership to build reliable, scalable solutions that power our marketing efforts. Your work will span our core marketing websites, the marketing publishing pipeline that enables partners to quickly reach customers, the lead flow pipeline that connects high-quality leads to revenue teams, and the experimentation and personalization platforms that help us engage the right audiences with the right message. You'll balance hands-on coding with thoughtful collaboration to ensure our systems are efficient, maintainable, and designed for impact.
This role is ideal for an engineer who thrives in a cross-functional, highly collaborative environment and enjoys working across the stack-from backend services and APIs to frontend interfaces and infrastructure. You'll have the autonomy to take ownership of projects, contribute to technical discussions, and ship meaningful improvements that directly influence GitHub's growth.
Responsibilities
Partner with cross-functional teams including Product, Design, and Marketing to define requirements and deliver impactful features.
Design and Implement scalable systems primarily using Ruby on Rails, React with TypeScript, and Go, with opportunities to work with Next.js and explore GraphQL.
Develop and maintain features within a large monolithic platform while contributing to new services and tooling, with bonus points for experience migrating between monoliths and microservices.
Build, test, and deploy high-quality code that improves performance, reliability, and accessibility while ensuring a seamless experience for users.
Integrate and extend our web platform with external systems such as headless CMSs, analytics tools, and A/B testing platforms.
Own the full software lifecycle, from design through deployment and monitoring, ensuring production reliability and maintainability.
Collaborate openly and continuously improve participate in design discussions, code reviews, and retrospectives to evolve our practices and shared codebases.
Champion best practices in engineering quality, security, performance, and accessibility.
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:
2+ years experience with Ruby on Rails
2+ years experience with React
2+ years experience with Next.js
Prior experience with a headless CMS (content management system) experience is a plus.
Compensation Range
The base salary range for this job is USD $107,700.00 - USD $285,900.00 /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
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