Software Engineer II - GitHub
Microsoft (company site, opens in a new tab)3+ yrsHyderabadOn-siteDirect career pageEst. 30–48 LPA
Posted on 17 Sept
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About This Role
- Design, build, and operate highly available distributed backend systems powering GitHub's critical platform services serving billions of requests globally.
- Own features and services lifecycle from design through production support focusing on reliability, performance, latency, and operational efficiency.
- Develop automation to reduce operational overhead and collaborate across GitHub and Microsoft engineering teams on large-scale platform modernization and AI-assisted workflows.
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field.
- Minimum 3 years of software engineering experience building production systems.
- Strong coding skills in languages like C#, Java, Go, C++, Python or similar; solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and distributed systems.
- Experience in building or operating large-scale backend services, cloud systems, or platform infrastructure; familiarity with databases, caching, messaging, and service-oriented architectures.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Experienced in operating or building large-scale, high-throughput, highly available internet-scale backend and platform services.
- Skilled at end-to-end ownership of distributed system components with focus on operational excellence and production incident management.
- Comfortable working in complex technical environments collaborating widely, leveraging modern cloud, container orchestration, observability, and AI-assisted engineering workflows.