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, serving developers and organizations worldwide. The Staff Software Engineer will lead the development of Copilot Code Review by solving complex product problems, advancing agent review capabilities and evaluation systems, shaping cross-platform review experiences, and operating high-throughput services at GitHub scale.
Responsibilities
- Own product problems that arrive without an answer and ship the answer end to end
- Advance how the agent reviews: the context it uses, what it remembers, and how it improves over time
- Decide what a good review looks like for a class of code, then build the evals that hold the product to it
- Make the quality, latency, and cost tradeoffs that decide how deep a review goes
- Improve review quality in aggregate and quantify the gain, including when a change wins overall and loses on some pull requests
- Shape the end-to-end review experience across VS Code, the GitHub Copilot app, and the GitHub Copilot CLI, and pull requests
- Keep a high-throughput service healthy at GitHub scale, including an on-call rotation
- Work at the frontier of how software gets built with agents and evolve workflows that make the whole team faster
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
- * Hands-on experience pushing coding agents to their limits, with a view on where they should and shouldn't own engineering work
- * Experience owning the measurement that makes a model-driven product improvable and catching metrics that move for the wrong reason
- * Depth in Go, Ruby, TypeScript, or Python, with the operational experience of running a distributed service on call at GitHub scale
- * Experience shipping an LLM-backed or agentic product, or the eval infrastructure behind one
Benefits
- Annual bonus
- Stock
- Sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role
- Remote-first work arrangement
- Learning and growth opportunities
- Excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are
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