Overview
As a Senior Software Engineer on the GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) Release team, you will play a critical role in building, validating, and delivering 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 the 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 work across engineering teams to improve release reliability, accelerate issue detection and triage, and ensure GHES ships as a high-quality, secure, and dependable appliance for enterprise customers.
Responsibilities
Own and improve the systems that build GHES operating system images, containers, and appliance artifacts across platform, infrastructure, and application layers.
Design, maintain, and evolve the release pipelines that generate, validate, and certify packages for GHES customer delivery.
Build and operate integration test environments for GHES, ensuring they are reliable, representative, and scalable for continuous validation.
Drive CI quality by improving test execution, signal reliability, issue detection, triage, and partnership with feature teams to resolve failures.
Enable 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.
Lead technical investments that reduce release friction, improve engineering velocity, 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.
Provide operational support for release infrastructure and lead investigation and resolution of critical issues impacting build, test, certification, or package delivery.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
6+ years’ experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding 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.
OR Associate’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years’ experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years’ experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 2+ years’ experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
OR Doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
OR equivalent experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
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.
Minimum 2 years’ experience in one or more scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python, or a similar language)
Minimum 2 years’ experience using general purpose programming languages (e.g., Go, Ruby, or a similar language).
Minimum 3 years’ experience with cloud environments and/or Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF) concepts
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about **requesting accommodations.**