Staff Software Engineer, Github
Client Apps
AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software
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AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help every developer—regardless of experience level—learn, code, and ship software effectively.
Role
Who you are
- This role is ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of product, platform, and user experience, balancing architectural leadership with hands-on contributions across multiple platforms
- Minimum 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, Go, Ruby, Rust, Python, JavaScript, C, C++, C#, Java, OR equivalent experience
- Experience of delivering high-quality software in one or more client domains (mobile, desktop, CLI)
- Experience with application packaging and distribution pipelines (e.g., App Store, Play Store, GitHub Releases)
- Experience with Swift, Kotlin, TypeScript
Desirable
- Understanding of telemetry, crash reporting, and performance optimization for client applications
- Architectural design skills, with experience guiding projects from concept to delivery
- Experience mentoring engineers and shaping inclusive, growth-oriented team cultures
- Ability to work collaboratively across engineering, design, and product to align technical solutions with user and business needs
What the job involves
- GitHub is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to help shape the future of our client-facing experiences, including GitHub Desktop, GitHub CLI, and our native mobile apps for iOS and Android
- As a Staff Engineer, you'll bring deep technical expertise, broad system awareness, and a passion for crafting high-quality, user-centric tools
- Provide technical leadership across client platforms (desktop, CLI, mobile), aligning engineering efforts with long-term product and architectural vision
- Lead design and implementation efforts for high-impact projects, balancing performance, maintainability, and usability
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and deliver polished, user-focused features that scale across operating systems and developer workflows
- Drive engineering excellence through thoughtful code reviews, clear documentation, and scalable testing strategies
- Foster a culture of ownership, mentorship, and continuous learning, supporting the growth of engineers across multiple teams
- Improve build systems, deployment processes, and release pipelines for native and cross-platform apps
- Identify and reduce technical debt in long-lived codebases, guiding teams through meaningful refactors and modernization efforts
- Champion GitHub's values of accessibility, security, and inclusivity in client software development
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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Insights
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.)
Company HQ
South Beach, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Thomas Dohmke
(CEO)Currently a Board Member at Spice AI. Previously a Principal Director of PM at Microsoft, Co-Founder at HockeyApp / Bit Stadium GmbH and Codenauts GmbH.
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