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As a Software Engineer II on the GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) Release team, you will help build, validate, and deliver the software artifacts that enable GHES to ship reliably to customers worldwide. This team owns critical parts of the GHES release pipeline, including OS and container builds across platform, infrastructure, and application layers; package generation and certification; integration test environments; and distribution of release artifacts through Azure, AWS, and GCP. In this role, you will contribute to improving release reliability, accelerating issue detection and triage, and ensuring GHES ships as a high-quality, secure, and dependable appliance for enterprise customers. You will partner closely with teammates and adjacent engineering teams to implement improvements, investigate issues, and strengthen release systems over time.
Job Responsibility:
Contribute to the systems that build GHES operating system images, containers, and appliance artifacts across platform, infrastructure, and application layers
Implement, maintain, and improve release pipelines that generate, validate, and certify packages for GHES customer delivery
Should have fluency with AI-assisted development and data-driven engineering workflows
Help build and operate integration test environments for GHES, ensuring they are reliable and useful for continuous validation
Improve CI quality by investigating failures, strengthening signal reliability, and partnering with feature teams to resolve issues
Support publication and distribution of GHES artifacts to Azure, AWS, and GCP for customer consumption
Partner with engineers across platform, infra, release, and product teams to improve release readiness, debugging, and root-cause analysis
Improve the safety, repeatability, observability, and compliance of release and certification workflows
Take ownership of well-scoped technical improvements that reduce release friction and increase confidence in shipped builds
Contribute across the end-to-end GHES release lifecycle, from build and package generation through validation, certification, and customer delivery
Participate in operational support for release infrastructure and assist in investigating and resolving issues impacting build, test, certification, or package delivery
Requirements:
4+ years’ experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with experience maintaining and delivering production software in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
Experience building and operating production CI/CD or release pipelines for complex distributed systems
Experience with Linux-based systems, containers, and software packaging or artifact delivery
Experience troubleshooting build, test, and release failures across multiple layers of the stack
Proven ability to improve engineering systems through automation, observability, and process simplification
Bacherlors'/Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 2+ years’ experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with experience maintaining and delivering production software in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
Nice to have:
Experience with release engineering for enterprise/on-prem or appliance-based software
Experience building or maintaining integration test environments at scale
Experience with package certification, compliance, or secure software delivery processes
Experience publishing or distributing artifacts through Azure, AWS, and/or GCP
Experience working across platform, infrastructure, and application teams in a highly cross-functional environment