Overview
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.

Responsibilities
- 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 practical 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 sh

📌 Software Engineer II- GitHub India (Hyderabad)
🏢 Microsoft
📍 Hyderabad