Software Engineer II, Marketing Engineering

Job Description

Job DescriptionAbout GitHubGitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development — powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 180 million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate, and more than 77,000 organisations have adopted GitHub Copilot. LocationsIn this role you can work from Remote, United StatesOverviewGitHub’s Marketing Engineering team empowers GitHub’s marketing organization to drive revenue and global impact by delivering scalable web infrastructure and tools that enable high-quality lead generation, compelling product storytelling, and seamless global launches.

As a Software Engineer II, you’ll help shape the systems and experiences that connect millions of developers and businesses to GitHub. You’ll collaborate across Revenue, Product, Design, and Leadership to build reliable, scalable solutions that power our marketing efforts. Your work will span our core marketing websites, the marketing publishing pipeline that enables partners to quickly reach customers, the lead flow pipeline that connects high-quality leads to revenue teams, and the experimentation and personalization platforms that help us engage the right audiences with the right message. You’ll balance hands-on coding with thoughtful collaboration to ensure our systems are efficient, maintainable, and designed for impact.

This role is ideal for an engineer who thrives in a cross-functional, highly collaborative environment and enjoys working across the stack—from backend services and APIs to frontend interfaces and infrastructure. You’ll have the autonomy to take ownership of projects, contribute to technical discussions, and ship meaningful improvements that directly influence GitHub’s growth.

ResponsibilitiesPartner with cross-functional teams including Product, Design, and Marketing to define requirements and deliver impactful features. Design and Implement scalable systems primarily using Ruby on Rails, React with TypeScript, and Go, with opportunities to work with Next. js and explore GraphQL.

Develop and maintain features within a large monolithic platform while contributing to new services and tooling, with bonus points for experience migrating between monoliths and microservices. Build, test, and deploy high-quality code that improves performance, reliability, and accessibility while ensuring a seamless experience for users. Integrate and extend our web platform with external systems such as headless CMSs, analytics tools, and A/B testing platforms.

Own the full software lifecycle, from design through deployment and monitoring, ensuring production reliability and maintainability. Collaborate openly and continuously improve participate in design discussions, code reviews, and retrospectives to evolve our practices and shared codebases.

Champion best practices in engineering quality, security, performance, and accessibility. You’ll work as part of a collaborative and cross-functional team that partners closely with Product Marketing, Design, and Revenue stakeholders to deliver impactful outcomes. Engineers on our team have strong ownership, driving projects end to end, making technical decisions, and directly engaging with partners to understand goals and shape solutions.

We expect engineers to: – Take initiative in defining and driving work that aligns with shared goals. – Communicate proactively with peers and stakeholders. – Embrace feedback, collaboration, and continuous learning.

– Strive for simplicity, scalability, and user-focused solutions. We believe in empowering engineers to make a meaningful impact and supporting growth through mentorship while celebrating the success of our collective work. QualificationsRequired Qualifications:2+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining production software coding 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, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) experience OR Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field OR equivalent experience Preferred Qualifications:2+ years experience with Ruby on Rails 2+ years experience with React 2+ years experience with Next.

js Prior experience with a headless CMS (content management system) experience is a plus. Compensation RangeThe base salary range for this job is USD $81,000. 00 – USD $214,900.

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