Software Engineer II- GitHub India

Contribute to the systems that build GHES operating system images, containers, and appliance artifacts across platform, infrastructure, and application layers. Implement, maintain, and improve release pipelines that generate, validate, and certify packages for GHES customer delivery. Should have fluency with AI-assisted development and data-driven engineering workflows Help build and operate integration test environments for GHES, ensuring they are reliable and useful for continuous validation. Improve CI quality by investigating failures, strengthening signal reliability, and partnering with feature teams to resolve issues. Support 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. Take ownership of well-scoped technical improvements that reduce release friction 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. Participate in operational support for release infrastructure and assist in investigating and resolving issues impacting build, test, certification, or package delivery. 4+ years' experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with experience maintaining and delivering production software 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. Bacherlors'/Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 2+ years' experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with experience maintaining and delivering production software in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python 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 4 years' experience in one or more scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python, or a similar language) Minimum 3 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