Senior Level Production Engineer Jobs
Senior level production engineer jobs put experienced engineers in charge of production systems, process reliability, and the technical direction of the teams and projects that keep operations running. Openings concentrate in Technology & Software, Science & Research, and Investment & Asset Management, with a mix of on-site, hybrid, and remote roles across employers like GIC, Citi, and Anthropic hiring at this level now.
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Top cityNew York, NY
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Principal Production Engineer
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GitHub
Principal Production Engineer
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Principal Engineer - Production Cost Modeling
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Qualus
Principal Engineer - Production Cost Modeling
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Production Engineer, IaaS Team Lead
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Fluidstack
Production Engineer, IaaS Team Lead
Seattle, Washington
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Production Engineer, Compute Team Lead
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Fluidstack
Production Engineer, Compute Team Lead
Austin, Texas
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Production Support Lead Engineer
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Citi
Production Support Lead Engineer
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Principal Production Engineer
GitHub·Remote
Job functions:
$160k - $425k/yr
9+ yrs exp.
Remote (US)
Master's degree in physics
Full Time
Job Description
About GitHub: GitHub 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.
Locations: In this role you can work from Remote, United States
Overview:
Preferred Qualifications
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.
This position will be open for a minimum of 3 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
GitHub Leadership Principles:
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!
Locations: In this role you can work from Remote, United States
Overview:
GitHub is the home for software development, helping millions of developers and organizations build, ship, and operate software together. As software development becomes increasingly AI-assisted, the reliability, scalability, and operability of our platform have never been more important.
We're building a new Production Engineering organization to help raise the operational bar across GitHub. Production Engineers are software engineers who embed with product and infrastructure teams to improve reliability, performance, scalability, and developer productivity through software, automation, and operational excellence.
In this role, you will:
- Embed with engineering teams to improve the reliability, scalability, and operability of GitHub's production systems.
- Own complex production problems end-to-end, from debugging live incidents to designing long-term engineering solutions.
- Design, build, and operate software and infrastructure that improves how GitHub runs in production.
- Partner with product and infrastructure teams to improve observability, capacity planning, performance, resiliency, and operational readiness.
- Write and review production-quality code, automate operational workflows, and eliminate repetitive manual work.
- Participate in incident response and help drive learning through incident reviews and follow-up engineering investments.
- Influence technical direction across teams by establishing engineering practices that improve operational excellence at scale.
- Mentor engineers and help build Production Engineering as a technical discipline within GitHub.
Required Qualifications
- 11+ years' experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering 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 10+ years' experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python,
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field AND 9+ years' experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python,
- OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 7+ years' experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python,
- OR Doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years' experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python,
- OR equivalent experience.
- Experience designing, operating, and debugging large-scale distributed systems, with a proven ability to drive improvements in high availability, automation, observability, and overall system reliability.
- Strong software engineering experience in one or more modern programming languages such as Go, Rust, C++, Java, Python, or C#.
- Experience with Linux, networking fundamentals, and systems performance.
- Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction across teams without direct authority.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience operating services at scale.
- Experience with Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, service networking, databases, or distributed storage systems.
- Experience leading incident response and driving operational improvements across organizations.
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity and software quality.
- Experience building engineering practices that improve reliability, operational excellence, or developer productivity across multiple teams.
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.
This position will be open for a minimum of 3 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
GitHub Leadership Principles:
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
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!
GitHub
Principal Production Engineer
Remote
Added 1mo ago
Job functions:
$160k - $425k/yr
9+ yrs exp.
Remote (US)
Master's degree in physics
Full Time
Job Description
About GitHub: GitHub 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.
Locations: In this role you can work from Remote, United States
Overview:
Preferred Qualifications
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.
This position will be open for a minimum of 3 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
GitHub Leadership Principles:
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!
Locations: In this role you can work from Remote, United States
Overview:
GitHub is the home for software development, helping millions of developers and organizations build, ship, and operate software together. As software development becomes increasingly AI-assisted, the reliability, scalability, and operability of our platform have never been more important.
We're building a new Production Engineering organization to help raise the operational bar across GitHub. Production Engineers are software engineers who embed with product and infrastructure teams to improve reliability, performance, scalability, and developer productivity through software, automation, and operational excellence.
In this role, you will:
- Embed with engineering teams to improve the reliability, scalability, and operability of GitHub's production systems.
- Own complex production problems end-to-end, from debugging live incidents to designing long-term engineering solutions.
- Design, build, and operate software and infrastructure that improves how GitHub runs in production.
- Partner with product and infrastructure teams to improve observability, capacity planning, performance, resiliency, and operational readiness.
- Write and review production-quality code, automate operational workflows, and eliminate repetitive manual work.
- Participate in incident response and help drive learning through incident reviews and follow-up engineering investments.
- Influence technical direction across teams by establishing engineering practices that improve operational excellence at scale.
- Mentor engineers and help build Production Engineering as a technical discipline within GitHub.
Required Qualifications
- 11+ years' experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering 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 10+ years' experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python,
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field AND 9+ years' experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python,
- OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 7+ years' experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python,
- OR Doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years' experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python,
- OR equivalent experience.
- Experience designing, operating, and debugging large-scale distributed systems, with a proven ability to drive improvements in high availability, automation, observability, and overall system reliability.
- Strong software engineering experience in one or more modern programming languages such as Go, Rust, C++, Java, Python, or C#.
- Experience with Linux, networking fundamentals, and systems performance.
- Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction across teams without direct authority.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience operating services at scale.
- Experience with Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, service networking, databases, or distributed storage systems.
- Experience leading incident response and driving operational improvements across organizations.
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity and software quality.
- Experience building engineering practices that improve reliability, operational excellence, or developer productivity across multiple teams.
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.
This position will be open for a minimum of 3 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
GitHub Leadership Principles:
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
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!
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Senior Level Production Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a senior level production engineer job?
Employers hiring at the senior level look for engineers who have owned production outcomes end to end, not just executed tasks. Demonstrating that you have led process improvement initiatives, resolved systemic reliability issues, and mentored junior engineers will set you apart. A strong track of cross-functional collaboration and the ability to translate technical findings into business decisions is what moves a candidate from mid-level consideration to senior.
Which companies hire senior level production engineers?
Companies hiring senior level production engineers right now include GIC, Citi, and Anthropic, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. Hiring at this level comes primarily from large manufacturers, energy producers, and technology-driven industrial operations that need engineers who can own complex production environments with minimal oversight.
Are there remote senior level production engineer jobs?
Yes, though many roles require at least some on-site presence given the hands-on nature of production work. About 36% of senior level production engineer openings are remote or hybrid as of September 2026, with fully remote opportunities tending to concentrate in process engineering, technical program management, and roles supporting distributed manufacturing operations.
What makes a production engineer role senior level?
Senior level production engineer roles are defined by scope and ownership. Where a mid-level engineer executes within a defined process, a senior engineer sets the technical direction, owns outcomes across the production system, and is accountable when things go wrong. Senior roles also carry an expectation of mentoring less experienced engineers and influencing decisions beyond your immediate function, including capital planning and cross-team process design.
Which industries hire the most senior level production engineers?
Senior level production engineer roles concentrate in Technology & Software, Science & Research, and Investment & Asset Management, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. These sectors drive hiring at this level because they operate complex, high-stakes production environments where experienced engineers who can own reliability, efficiency, and continuous improvement are critical to operations.