Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GitHub is a leading platform for agentic software development powered by Copilot. The Staff Software Engineer will provide technical leadership for the CoPilot Agent Platform by architecting secure, durable, globally scalable cloud infrastructure for autonomous software-development agents, while guiding engineering decisions and maintaining platform security, reliability, observability, performance, and cost efficiency.
Responsibilities
- 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
Skills
- 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
- 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
Benefits
- Annual bonus
- Stock
- Sales incentives based on revenue or utilization for certain eligible roles, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role
- Remote-first work arrangement
- Learning and growth opportunities
- Excellent benefits
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