Staff Software Engineer, Github
CoPilot Agent Platform
$140.4-372.3k
Kubernetes
JavaScript
Python
C#
Java
Kafka
Go
Ruby
Terraform
C++
C
Rust
Azure
Senior and Expert level
Remote from US
AI-powered developer platform to build, scale & deliver secure software
Posted today
AI-powered developer platform to build, scale & deliver secure software
1001+ employees
B2CB2BInternal toolsSaaSDevOps
Posted today
$140.4-372.3k
Kubernetes
JavaScript
Python
C#
Java
Kafka
Go
Ruby
Terraform
C++
C
Rust
Azure
Senior and Expert level
Remote from US
1001+ employees
B2CB2BInternal toolsSaaSDevOps
Company mission
To help every developer—regardless of experience level—learn, code, and ship software effectively.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate combines deep distributed-systems and cloud-infrastructure expertise with strong technical leadership
- 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 Associate’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ 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 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 Master's Degree 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 Doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ 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
- 5+ years of experience operating distributed backend systems at a senior level, including API design, data modeling, and production ownership
- 1+ years of experience building and shipping AI/ML-powered features in production as a software engineer
Desirable
- Hands on experience with Go in production, ideally on multi-tenant, high availability services
- Experience with NoSQL or document databases (Azure CosmosDB or comparable) and event driven architectures (Event Hubs, Kafka, or similar)
- Experience with spec first API development (OpenAPI/Swagger) and generated server/client bindings
- Experience with feature flag driven development and staged, reversible rollouts in a service used across multiple regions or tenancy models (for example, standard SaaS plus government/sovereign cloud style deployments)
- Familiarity with Kubernetes/Kustomize based deployment and Terraform managed cloud infrastructure
What the job involves
- GitHub is shaping the future of software development in the age of AI agents. The GitHub Cloud Agent platform provides the secure, scalable infrastructure that enables agents to autonomously perform complex software-development tasks for millions of developers and organizations
- We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership for one of GitHub’s most ambitious, cutting-edge platforms
- You will define the technical direction and lead the architecture and evolution of the cloud infrastructure powering GitHub’s next generation of autonomous agents
- You will build secure, durable, globally scalable systems that orchestrate diverse compute workloads, agent harnesses, custom tools, support authentication, and identity for agents
- Operating at the frontier of AI-powered software development, you will solve unprecedented infrastructure challenges while establishing the enterprise-grade security, reliability, and isolation required to run trusted agents at GitHub scale
- You will collaborate with staff and principal engineers and partner teams across GitHub to translate ambitious product goals into reliable platform architecture
- You will write architecture proposals, prototype new approaches, establish engineering standards, and guide teams through complex technical decisions
- You will also own the operational health of the platform, ensuring strong security, observability, availability, performance, and cost efficiency as adoption and workloads grow
- You work autonomously, communicate clearly across organizational boundaries, mentor other engineers, and balance long-term architectural vision with incremental delivery
- Your work will establish the foundation on which GitHub builds and scales the next generation of AI-powered software-development experiences
- Design, develop, test and ship high-quality technical solutions that scale across multiple GitHub services and become intimately familiar with the systems you build and take pride in writing maintainable code
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews to encourage the growth of others; support teams in producing extensible and maintainable code, ensuring integration with downstream dependencies and adherence to quality standards
- Help cultivate an environment where team members are empowered and demonstrate a strong sense of ownership and belonging
- Own and advocate for the health and quality of the systems that the team builds, including participating in on-call for first responder rotations and live incidents
- Write architecture briefs and proposals and carry out code experiments
- Design and implement APIs to facilitate seamless integration between software components
- Maintain executional and operational excellence within and potentially across teams/organizations
- Apply debugging tools and telemetry to verify assumptions, proactively resolve issues, and optimize code performance and maintainability
- Drive and support technical roadmap that aligns with product goals, ensuring that engineering efforts are strategically prioritized and incorporating the adoption of new technologies and methodologies where applicable
- Work with the team to understand technical constraints, and develop, communicate, and track against realistic plans to consistently ship products, features, and bug fixes
Our take
GitHub was founded to make a developer’s job easier with open and asynchronous communication, distributed version control, and source code management with Git. In the first year alone, 100,000 users were pushing code on the site.
GitHub has quickly become the world’s most popular platform for developers to collaborate on open-source projects from anywhere. Nearly every major company including Facebook, Google, and Apple hosts open-source projects on GitHub.
Github's work culture reflects its global community, with employees collaborating remotely from all over the world. In 2018, Microsoft acquired the company as part of its broader strategy to enhance cloud computing services. Since then, GitHub has been dedicated to evolving its platform, consistently investing in ongoing development to better serve its users.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Top investors
18% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jul 2015
$250m
SERIES B
Jul 2012
$100m
SERIES A
Total funding: $350m
Company benefits
- Flexible time away to support balance in your work and life
- Clear diversity, inclusion, and anti-discrimination policies backed by business practices and company culture
- Five months of paid family leave to all new parents with the option to use it all at once or throughout the child’s first year
- Family forming benefits that cover fertility, infertility, adoption, and surrogacy costs and support
- Mental health benefits that offer resources and support and cover therapy and coaching sessions for you and your dependents
- Generous 401(k) matching with 50% match up to the IRS 402(g) limit (US; competitive non-US pension options internationally)
- Employee stock purchase plan that lets you purchase Microsoft stock at a discount. (Microsoft is our parent company.)
- 100% of medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums covered by GitHub for you + your dependents. (Includes gender-affirming benefits)
Company HQ
South Beach, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Kyle Daigle
(COO)Prior to GitHub, Kyle took on developer-focused challenges as an engineering and product leader in startups, working in FinTech, real estate, and consulting.
Vladimir Fedorov
(CTO)Before joining GitHub, Vlad co-founded UserClouds, a startup specializing in data governance and privacy. He spent 12 years at Facebook as SVP, leading engineering teams across Privacy, Ads, and Platform.
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