Software Engineer, Github
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
- 2+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining 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 1+ year(s) experience
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field
- OR equivalent experience
- 1+ years of experience with one or more of the following areas:
- Software security, including static analysis, dynamic analysis, software supply chain security, and best practices in creating high-quality, secure code
- Experience building developer tools that operate on source code, such as compilers, parsers, linters, static analyzers, debuggers, CLI tools, or IDE extensions
- Machine learning applied to understanding source code, specifically using prompt engineering with large language models (LLMs) and systematic data collection and result evaluation
Desirable
- The interest and ability to learn additional programming languages as required
- Ability to work with multiple stakeholders and teams across engineering, product, and design
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Experience working in a distributed team, operating effectively across multiple time zones (our teams span a wide time zone range from Pacific time to Central European time)
- Passion for fostering good engineering practices, tools, and processes
- Knowledge of compilers, program analysis, programming language design and implementation
- Knowledge of logic programming or database query languages (e.g. SQL, Prolog, Datalog, Kusto Query Language)
- Building integrations with CI/CD systems, such as GitHub Actions or Jenkins
What the job involves
- Our team develops CodeQL and Copilot Autofix, detection and remediation capabilities that power the GitHub code scanning product, used by hundreds of thousands of developers and projects every day as part of GitHub's Advanced Security and Code Security offerings
- In this role, you will join one of the distributed engineering teams responsible for building and expanding the core capabilities of code scanning with CodeQL and Copilot Autofix
- Code analysis: Maintaining support for multiple programming languages, including:
- Building source code extractors that translate code written in each language into data that CodeQL can understand, keeping up with the latest version of each supported language
- Writing and maintaining queries in the CodeQL query language that accurately detect security vulnerabilities and undesirable coding patterns
- Ensuring the quality of LLM-powered Copilot Autofix suggestions for fixing the alerts found
- Building analysis libraries in the CodeQL query language that reason precisely about the semantics of programming languages, supporting the development of queries across all languages
- Experimenting with and robustly evaluating LLM-powered detection engines and integration between LLMs and traditional static analysis
- AI engines: Building, expanding, and robustly evaluating LLM-based engines for remediation and detection. These power Copilot code review, which produces comment suggestions for quality issues in a codebase, and Copilot Autofix, which produces fix suggestions for code scanning alerts and Copilot code review findings
- Engine quality: Developing and integrating CodeQL as a code scanning tool running in production in GitHub Actions, third-party CI systems, the command line, and the IDE; and building systems that evaluate the quality of CodeQL and LLM-based engines at large scale over thousands of codebases
- In any of the above tracks, you will work closely with various engineering teams, product managers, designers, and technical writers that build different aspects of the code scanning product, to influence product direction and deliver features to users, with clear focus on quality, reliability, and user experience
- You will engage with internal users and external users (both from enterprise customers and the open-source community) to help them succeed with the product
- You’ll influence and provide feedback on the organizational culture and processes, always looking for opportunities to improve in a continuous pursuit of excellence
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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