Staff Networking Engineer
Microsoft
United States
Posted on Oct 18, 2024
About GitHub
As the global home for all developers, GitHub is the complete AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 100 million people, including developers from 90 of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to build amazing things together across 330+ million repositories. With all the collaborative features of GitHub, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write faster, better code.
Locations
In this role you can work from Remote, United States
Overview
We’re looking for a Staff Network Engineer to join GitHub’s Network Engineering team. Our mission is to design, build, maintain, and scale GitHub’s peering, transport, exchange, and data center network infrastructure in a multi-site, on-premises data center environment, while also supporting our hybrid cloud efforts.
As GitHub grows, our network engineers must work cross-functionally to support our ever-expanding compute footprint and rapid user growth. This critical infrastructure supports all GitHub products, teams, and users, making your role pivotal in ensuring its ongoing scalability and reliability. In this role, you will be responsible for providing technical leadership within our network engineering team and driving capabilities that serve our unique and complex platform.
You will lead the team in building and enhancing the architecture, configuration, and software frameworks and tools that are used to manage and maintain our network infrastructure. You will assess capacity needs, predict growth trends, and plan for scalability. You will also handle internal/external support within your area of responsibility, drive network security and compliance, and lead efforts to monitor infrastructure proactively to identify and address potential issues. Furthermore, you will drive optimization efforts and lead initiatives aimed at enhancing system performance, reliability, and scalability. You must maintain advanced knowledge of the latest technologies and best practices in network engineering and be adept at diagnosing common and uncommon errors to develop or direct solutions. You will collaborate with software engineers and other infrastructure teams to troubleshoot issues and optimize network performance.
Responsibilities
Network Development and Management
Required Qualifications:
The base salary range for this job is USD $127,600.00 - USD $338,500.00 /Yr.
These pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States. An individual's base pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant. At GitHub certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role.
GitHub values
GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with 100 million developers and counting. We’re also home to the biggest open-source community on earth (and 99% of the world’s software has open-source code in its DNA). Many of the apps and programs you use every day are built on GitHub.
Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!). At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We’re remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are—because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms.
Join us, and let’s change the world, together.
EEO Statement
GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don't discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!
As the global home for all developers, GitHub is the complete AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 100 million people, including developers from 90 of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to build amazing things together across 330+ million repositories. With all the collaborative features of GitHub, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write faster, better code.
Locations
In this role you can work from Remote, United States
Overview
We’re looking for a Staff Network Engineer to join GitHub’s Network Engineering team. Our mission is to design, build, maintain, and scale GitHub’s peering, transport, exchange, and data center network infrastructure in a multi-site, on-premises data center environment, while also supporting our hybrid cloud efforts.
As GitHub grows, our network engineers must work cross-functionally to support our ever-expanding compute footprint and rapid user growth. This critical infrastructure supports all GitHub products, teams, and users, making your role pivotal in ensuring its ongoing scalability and reliability. In this role, you will be responsible for providing technical leadership within our network engineering team and driving capabilities that serve our unique and complex platform.
You will lead the team in building and enhancing the architecture, configuration, and software frameworks and tools that are used to manage and maintain our network infrastructure. You will assess capacity needs, predict growth trends, and plan for scalability. You will also handle internal/external support within your area of responsibility, drive network security and compliance, and lead efforts to monitor infrastructure proactively to identify and address potential issues. Furthermore, you will drive optimization efforts and lead initiatives aimed at enhancing system performance, reliability, and scalability. You must maintain advanced knowledge of the latest technologies and best practices in network engineering and be adept at diagnosing common and uncommon errors to develop or direct solutions. You will collaborate with software engineers and other infrastructure teams to troubleshoot issues and optimize network performance.
Responsibilities
Network Development and Management
- Lead the team in designing, building, maintaining, and scaling components of a large-scale, multi-site, heavily peered network.
- Assess network capacity needs, predict growth trends, and plan for scalability.
- Ensure sufficient resources are allocated, and that network equipment and services are properly scaled to handle increasing demands.
- Expand network platform offerings to meet business and developer needs.
- Handle internal/external support for network engineering escalations.
- Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation, respond to incidents, and collaborate with other teams to resolve reliability issues.
- Lead efforts to monitor infrastructure proactively to identify and address issues, including through instructional playbooks.
- Research and understand performance gaps or outages, using this knowledge to resolve issues.
- Identify and execute disaster recovery/failure test scenarios.
- Drive the security and compliance of the infrastructure.
- Collaborate with security teams to implement and maintain robust security measures, conduct vulnerability assessments, and adhere to relevant regulatory standards.
- Ensure timely upgrades to software and firmware used for infrastructure operation, as well as to software components in our management and automation toolchains.
- Drive incident management processes, provide incident reports, identify root causes, and implement preventive measures to avoid future incidents.
- Embody our values: better together, growth mindset, ship to learn, customer-obsessed, diverse & inclusive, and own the outcome.
- Embody our principles: create clarity, generate energy, and deliver success.
Required Qualifications:
- 9+ years of technical experience in network engineering, including architecture, network design, and product selection/hardware specifications. OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field AND 7+ years of technical experience in network engineering OR equivalent experience
- 2+ years of technical leadership experience (Staff, Principal, or equivalent level)
- 2+ years of scripting experience in mainstream languages (Python, Bash, etc.) or frameworks (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc.)
- 4+ years of experience in one or more scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python, or similar).
- 4+ years of experience using general-purpose programming languages (e.g., Go, Ruby, or similar).
- 5+ years of experience managing compute hardware in the context of datacenter deployments.
- 5+ years of experience with compute platforms and frameworks (Kubernetes, Virtualization platforms like VMware, libvirt/KVM), including service mesh and service discovery technologies (Istio, Consul, etc.).
The base salary range for this job is USD $127,600.00 - USD $338,500.00 /Yr.
These pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States. An individual's base pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant. At GitHub certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role.
GitHub values
- Customer-obsessed
- Ship to learn
- Growth mindset
- Own the outcome
- Better together
- Diverse and inclusive
- Model
- Coach
- Care
- Create clarity
- Generate energy
- Deliver success
GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with 100 million developers and counting. We’re also home to the biggest open-source community on earth (and 99% of the world’s software has open-source code in its DNA). Many of the apps and programs you use every day are built on GitHub.
Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!). At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We’re remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are—because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms.
Join us, and let’s change the world, together.
EEO Statement
GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don't discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!