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GitHub

Subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation

Explore GitHub career opportunities at the world's largest developer platform. Find software engineering, product, and DevOps roles serving 100M+ developers.

Website

github.com

Industry

Software Development Tools

Year founded

2008

Employees

3,000

About

GitHub is the world's largest developer platform and code repository hosting service, serving over 100 million developers globally.

The company provides Git-based version control, collaborative development tools, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-based software development workflows.

Acquired by Microsoft in 2018 for $7.5 billion, GitHub powers open source projects and enterprise software development at scale.

GitHub's platform hosts over 420 million repositories and processes billions of Git operations daily.

Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Key leadership
Thomas Dohmke (CEO)

Notable highlights

  • World's largest source code host with 100M+ developers
  • Acquired by Microsoft for $7.5 billion in 2018
  • Hosts over 420 million repositories globally
  • Powers CI/CD through GitHub Actions
  • GitHub Copilot AI coding assistant used by millions

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