# Software Engineer II

OverviewAs part of this team , you will work on some mission-critical platform services that power GitHub's global developer ecosystem. This team owns and operates high-scale distributed systems including GitHub Packages, GitHub Pages, Email Services and other foundational developer experience tools and platforms. These services support billions of requests, stringent reliability requirements, and developer workflows used worldwide. As an Engineer on this team, you will work on some of GitHub's most challenging scale, reliability, and operational excellence problems while collaborating with engineers across GitHub and Microsoft. Responsibilities Design, build, and operate highly available distributed systems that power critical GitHub platform services. Develop scalable backend services and platform capabilities using modern engineering practices, automation, and observability. Improve service reliability, performance, latency, and operational efficiency for mission-critical workloads. Own features and services throughout their lifecycle, from design and implementation through production support and live-site excellence. Build automation that reduces operational overhead and im

- **Id**: 4074931
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/microsoft-software-engineer-ii-52>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Hyderabad, India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-09T06:48:15Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T14:57:39Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 63
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4787
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), Office & Productivity Software, Gaming Consoles, Developer Tools

## Company

- **Id**: 18
- **Name**: Microsoft
- **Domain**: microsoft.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/microsoft>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Eightfold

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 85
- **Open postings**: 487
- **Ghost share**: 0.006
- **Stale share**: 0.563
- **Repost share**: 0.047
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 29
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Technologies

- **C#** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **GitHub** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **MySQL** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Ruby** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: yes
- **Incident Management** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 63

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T14:57:39Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 18
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.658
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 63
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T17:18:15Z

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