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 Bellevue, Washington United States | San Francisco, California United States

Overview

As a software engineer intern 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. Internships at GitHub aim to provide students with hands-on experience in developing fundamental skills while exploring potential career paths.

We are looking for talented individuals to join us for an internship in 2024. In this role, you will design, develop and ship high-quality technical solutions that scale across multiple GitHub services. The GitHub culture promotes many opportunities for collaboration with peers as we all work “better together”. You’ll be assigned to one of our many fast-paced engineering teams to work on meaningful projects which support our corporate goals and mission.

Locations for internships: Bellevue, WA or San Francisco, CA. 

Expected Length of Summer Internship: 12 Weeks

Expected start date: May 20, 2024 or June 10, 2024.

Responsibilities

• Develop high-performance, reliable, testable and maintainable code.
• Participate in all aspects of software development activities, including design, coding, code review, testing, bug fixing, and code/API documentation.
• Collaborate with engineers and participate in daily or weekly stand ups and meetings.
• Work both independently and collaboratively within a fast-paced development team, with clear, positive, and constructive communication.
• Additional responsibilities as needed based on the specific role or team.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Currently in the process of obtaining a Bachelor’s degree or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, or similar field with at least one semester to complete after the internship
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively
• Experience with two or more of the following skill sets:
  Ruby/Rails
  Go and related tooling
  Database Management Systems, preferably MySQL
  REST APIs
  React, Python or NodeJS

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Git CLI, GitHub client or other version control platform for collaborative development
• Attention to detail with good organizational and planning skills.

Compensation Range
The base salary range for this job is USD $29.81 - USD $78.99 /Hr.
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.
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

Manager fundamentals

• Model
• Coach
• Care

Leadership principles

• Create clarity
• Generate energy
• Deliver success

Who We Are
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!