Do you want to make software development a delight for the entire world? Join us at GitHub!   We are delivering the best end to end software development experiences across GitHub and Azure DevOps.

We’re looking for experienced backend software engineers to join the Azure DevOps platform team. This team is responsible for cross-cutting investments in backend services like authentication and authorization, shared service frameworks, and livesite tools and processes that all our teams and on call engineers rely on.  Together, these investments allow us to build and manage cloud services running at tremendous scale with ever-increasing security, reliability, and operational efficiency.  You can learn more about Azure DevOps here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/devops/

In this role, you will have the opportunity to work as a full stack engineer with a distributed, diverse and a passionate team. You’ll work with our team of engineers, designers, and product managers to build and maintain customer-facing experiences and deliver them into the hands of tens of millions of developers across the world.

Responsibilities:

• Write, test, instrument, document, and maintain code primarily in C#, SQL, and PowerShell
• Learn, pair, and participate in code reviews, to grow and contribute to the growth of others in and around your team
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and partner Engineering teams to build new features
• Analyze how your features are performing in production to learn and make the product better
• Support a highly available service used by millions of users on a daily basis
• Participate in on-call rotations for your team and respond to incidents as necessary

Qualifications:

• Strong object-oriented design skills gained from at least 2 years of working with OOP languages and patterns. Experience with .Net/C# preferred, but experience with other languages is fine.
• Experience designing, building and running large scale and highly available cloud services or distributed systems preferred
• Solid understanding of testing principles and high quality software
• Excellent analytical skills as well as communication skills both verbal and written. We are a distributed team so we’re extra mindful about communication.
• For backend or full-stack, experience with high scale SQL and general database knowledge preferred
• Troubleshooting skills across network, caching, queuing, load-balancing storage and distributed services layers preferred

Ability to meet GitHub, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:  Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft, GitHub’s parent company, Cloud Screen upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

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