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GitHub Jobs / Application Engineer - Backend
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| ### Private Copy of https://jobs.lever.co/github/83e67f41-64c5-46f0-9a3d-ae0066692546 at January 6th 2016 | |
| Application Engineer - Backend | |
| Anywhere Engineering Full-time | |
| GitHub is changing the way the world builds software, and we want you to help build GitHub. We’re looking for an experienced application engineer to work on GitHub.com with a backend/infrastructure focus. You’ll work with our team of engineers to build and maintain features that ensure our site is fast, available, and meets the needs of our more than four million users. | |
| Responsibilities | |
| * Writing and reviewing application code | |
| * Steering technical direction of projects | |
| * Working with our support team to triage and debug technical support requests | |
| * Working with our product team to define and prioritize projects | |
| * Documenting the systems you help build | |
| Qualifications | |
| * 3+ years experience working on the backend of a web application at scale | |
| * Experience with Git and GitHub | |
| * SQL and general database knowledge | |
| * Solid knowledge of testing principles | |
| * Strong verbal and written communication skills | |
| * Experience with operations in a large production environment | |
| * Experience troubleshooting in production environments | |
| Bonus | |
| * Experience refactoring large-scale systems | |
| * Experience building streaming APIs | |
| * Distributed systems expertise | |
| * Experience with CDNs (Fastly) | |
| * Experience with RESTful API design | |
| About GitHub | |
| Who we are | |
| GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over ten million people use GitHub to build amazing things together. With the collaborative features of GitHub.com, our desktop and mobile apps, and GitHub Enterprise, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write better code, faster. | |
| We have a lot of exciting things to do, and we’re looking for the right people to grow with us! | |
| Why you should join | |
| Working at GitHub is, to put it simply, a special slice of the universe. We're committed to transparency, collaboration, experimentation, and always staying classy. | |
| Because of this unique perspective, we've established one of the most flexible and well designed physical workspaces around that encourages you to work as you work best. Right now, over 60% of our employees are based outside of our San Francisco (SOMA) headquarters and work according to how they get their best stuff done. | |
| Ensuring that GitHubbers are healthy, motivated, focused and creative is how GitHub stays awesome. Part of this is ensuring that our benefits* are out of this world. | |
| In a nutshell, we've built and are growing a place where we truly love working, and we think you will too. | |
| GitHub is made up of people with many different backgrounds and lifestyles, and we like it that way. We invite applications from people of all stripes. We don't discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences that people imagine to discriminate against one another. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's anything we can do to make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate. | |
| *Please note that benefits vary by country, if you have any questions don't hesitate to ask your recruiter! |
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