Overview
As part of this team, you will work on mission-critical platform services that power GitHub's global developer ecosystem. The team owns and operates high-scale distributed systems, including GitHub Packages, GitHub Pages, Email Services, and other foundational developer experience tools and platforms. These services support billions of requests, stringent reliability requirements, and developer workflows used worldwide.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will provide technical leadership for some of GitHub's most challenging scale, reliability, and operational excellence initiatives. You will lead design and implementation, make sound architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and collaborate across GitHub and Microsoft to deliver durable platform capabilities.

Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, and operation of highly available distributed systems that power critical GitHub platform services.
- Drive architecture and technical direction for scalable backend services and platform capabilities using contemporary engineering practices, automation,



and observability.
- Define and deliver improvements to service reliability, performance, latency, capacity, security, and operational efficiency for mission-critical workloads.
- Own complex features and services throughout their lifecycle, from requirements and design reviews through implementation, rollout, production support, and live-site excellence.
- Build automation and reusable platform capabilities that reduce operational overhead and improve engineering productivity across teams.
- Lead investigations of complex production issues across distributed systems, storage, networking, and service infrastructure, and drive durable corrective actions.
- Partner with engineers and stakeholders across GitHub and Microsoft to align technical strategy and deliver large-scale platform investments and modernization efforts.
- Mentor engineers, raise engineering standards through design and code reviews, and le

📌 Senior Software Engineer (Hyderabad)
🏢 Microsoft
📍 Hyderabad