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Within GitHub’s ecosystem, Actions powers automation for millions of developers worldwide, enabling them to build, test, and deploy code directly from their repositories. As the backbone of CI/CD workflows across GitHub, Actions processes billions of jobs monthly, from simple builds to complex deployment pipelines spanning multiple environments. Our team owns the core infrastructure and services that make this possible, ensuring reliability at massive scale. We're a group of engineers passionate about developer productivity, tackling challenges in distributed systems, container orchestration, security, and cloud infrastructure. You'll work alongside talented colleagues who value collaboration, operational excellence, and building products that developers love.
Job Responsibility
Design, develop, test and ship high-quality technical solutions across GitHub Actions services
Participate in code reviews, pairing sessions, and technical discussions that raise the quality bar for the team
Own and advocate for the health and quality of the systems that the team builds, including participating in on-call for first responder rotations and live incidents
Design and implement APIs to facilitate seamless integration between software components
Collaborate with cross-functional teams and contribute to technical discussions, including design and trade-off considerations
Contribute to comprehensive testing strategies, define success metrics, and incorporate customer feedback to drive continuous improvement
Contribute to operational excellence by improving system reliability and maintaining monitoring, alerting, and runbooks across Actions services
Participate in technical planning that aligns with product goals, helping ensure engineering efforts are appropriately prioritized.
Requirements
Professional experience in software engineering, computer science, or a related technical discipline, with demonstrated experience coding and shipping production software
Hands-on proficiency in one or more general-purpose programming languages such as C, C++, C#, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
A degree in Computer Science, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Computer Engineering, or a related field — or equivalent professional experience.
Nice to have
Experience designing or operating distributed systems, container orchestration, or cloud infrastructure
Experience building or operating CI/CD systems (directly relevant to the Actions domain)
Experience designing and implementing APIs for service-to-service integration
Experience participating in on-call rotations, live-site response, or service-reliability practices (monitoring, alerting, runbooks).