Software Engineer I, Secret Scanning

The GitHub Security Products team is on a mission to secure the world’s software.

We’re building tools that make it easy to find, fix, and prevent code vulnerabilities and credential leaks, deploying them to millions of developers.

Every day, developers unintentionally commit secrets into their repositories.

Without intervention, this can cause damaging privacy and monetary losses.

We’re solving that.

As a software engineer at GitHub, you will enhance the collaboration experience at GitHub by working closely with a community of engineers and designers with a distributed, diverse, and passionate team delivering the services that millions of developers depend on.

In this role, you will design, prototype, implement, ship, and support highly performant and inspiring user experiences with your team.

We are looking for creative problem solvers and diverse thinkers, people who care about culture as well as customers and features.

We believe that how we do things is as important as what we do.

Big vision, a common purpose, passion for quality, curiosity, dedication, and investment in fun and collaboration are what lead to great results.

Great products reflect the teams that build them.

• Write, review, and maintain clean, high-quality code primarily in Ruby, Go, and JavaScript.
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and designers to understand problems, explore solutions, and build new features.
• Ship small features and bug fixes regularly, taking on larger and more complex work as you grow in the role.
• Participate in technical discussions, planning, and code reviews, sharing your ideas and giving thoughtful feedback to teammates.
• Learn and follow the team’s engineering practices, while helping improve the quality, reliability, and maintainability of the systems you work on.
• Help build and maintain APIs, automated tests, and CI/CD pipelines that support reliable software delivery.
• Participate in on-call and first responder rotations, helping investigate and resolve production issues.
• Work with support teams and other partners to investigate, triage, and debug technical support requests.

• 1+ year(s)

in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining production software in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python OR Associate’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, or related field OR equivalent experience.

• OR Associate’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, or related field
• OR equivalent experience.

• Experience building user-facing web applications with modern web technologies
• Experience using general purpose programming languages (e.g., Go, Ruby, or similar language).

GitHub values

• Customer-obsessed
• Ship to learn
• Growth mindset
• Own the outcome
• Better together
• Diverse and inclusive

Manager fundamentals

• Model
• Coach
• Care

Leadership principles

• Create clarity
• Generate energy
• Deliver success