Work on GitHub's Code Scanning and Code Quality products to detect and help remediate security vulnerabilities and bugs. Responsibilities include designing, developing, testing, and operating highly performant and scalable services; building AI-agent features for code analysis; developing GraphQL and REST APIs; maintaining Ruby on Rails applications and Go services; driving reliability through instrumentation, monitoring and SLOs; participating in on-call rotations; and mentoring other engineers.

Work on VM runtime, provisioning, configuration management, image pipelines, Terraform-based automation, and fleet maintenance. Contribute code, runbooks, and incident response for large-scale platform infrastructure; collaborate with distributed engineering and security teams.

GitHub seeks a Staff Software Engineer for the Traffic Team to design and implement scalable, reliable solutions (rate-limiting, routing, etc.), maintain the GitHub Load Balancer, and mentor engineers. Role requires experience with high-traffic systems, cloud-native workloads (Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud), load balancer maintenance (including abuse protection/DDoS mitigation), primary coding in Go and Ruby, and participation in on-call rotations. Position is remote in the United States.

Join GitHub Actions to design, build, and maintain high-performance, scalable CI/CD infrastructure used by millions of developers. The role involves system design, API development, operational ownership (including rotating on-call), security for untrusted code execution, cross-team collaboration, and technical leadership/mentorship. Candidates should have substantial software engineering experience and be proficient in languages such as Go, Ruby, Rust, Python, or JavaScript.

Lead the design, implementation, operation and scaling of GitHub's Blackbird code search engine powering lexical and semantic search for GitHub and Copilot products. Work on distributed, high-scale systems, integrate AI/ML features and AI agents, participate in on-call incident response, and provide technical leadership and mentorship. Requires substantial software engineering experience and proficiency in languages such as Rust, Go, Java, Python, and others.

Hands-on platform engineering role to design, implement, and operate backend services and APIs for enterprise configuration, policy enforcement, workflows, and auditing. Responsibilities include cross-team integration, domain modeling, ensuring reliable behavior across service boundaries, telemetry and on-call ownership, CI/CD, and driving architecture decisions.

Work on GitHub's lexical and semantic code search engine (Blackbird) within the Copilot Agents organization. Responsibilities include designing, implementing, operating, and scaling production systems, building CI/CD and automation, improving observability and monitoring, ensuring security and compliance, participating in on-call rotations, and collaborating with partner teams to deliver globally scalable code search capabilities.

Role on the Copilot Agents team to develop, scale, operate and extend Blackbird — GitHub's lexical and semantic code search engine. Responsibilities include owning system health, on-call rotations, automation, CI/CD, observability, security/compliance, building scalable APIs and prototypes, and collaborating across teams. Requires strong experience with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, DevOps/reliability, and production monitoring.

Work remotely from the United States on a distributed team to design and build core database platform components, operate replication topology and failover automation, manage kernel/storage/compute configuration, contribute to capacity planning and cloud migrations (including Azure), and participate in on-call incident response. Strong emphasis on MySQL internals, production-scale replication, sharding, and systems-level tooling.

Lead technical direction and implementation of Kubernetes-based platform systems that support GitHub production services, focusing on reliability, automation, operational clarity, and reducing toil. Work includes cluster lifecycle and fleet management, AKS migration, capacity and control-plane reliability, debugging production issues across cloud infrastructure, and mentoring engineers. Requires extensive software engineering experience and hands-on Kubernetes/cloud-native platform experience.

Join GitHub's Developer Experience Build and Test team to design, operate, and improve core build and continuous integration systems used across the company. The role focuses on reliability, reducing test flakiness, incident response, and evolving CI platforms at scale. Remote within the United States.

Join GitHub's Production Engineering organization to embed with product and infrastructure teams to improve reliability, scalability, and operability of production systems. Responsibilities include diagnosing and resolving live incidents, building software and infrastructure to improve operations, driving observability and capacity planning, automating operational workflows, and mentoring engineers. Required experience includes extensive software engineering background and experience with large-scale distributed systems and languages such as Go, Rust, C++, Java, Python, or C#.

Join GitHub's Copilot Agents organization to design, implement, and operate the context layer that enables AI agents to find, retain, and apply software-development context across code, issues, PRs, and tools. The role involves leading technical architecture, building platform APIs for retrieval, memory, sessions and evaluation, and working cross-functionally; requires substantial production software engineering experience and familiarity with information/context retrieval and generative-AI systems.

Lead and drive cross-team initiatives and migrations for GitHub's frontend web UI platform, focusing on performance, accessibility, consistency, availability, and developer velocity. Requires extensive frontend engineering experience with frameworks (React/Angular), TypeScript/JavaScript, web performance optimization, accessibility, and building shared component libraries/design systems. Remote role based in Canada.

Remote Staff Software Engineer role on GitHub's Billing team responsible for evolving payment and billing systems serving millions of users, with a primary focus on fraud and abuse mitigation. The role spans backend services, APIs, and frontend work, involves on-call and incident response, collaboration across GitHub and Microsoft, and requires experience with cloud platforms (Azure), payments integrations, and production-scale engineering.

Senior engineering role responsible for scaling and operating GitHub's database platforms: leading design reviews, defining SLOs and operational standards, building SDKs and tooling, participating in on-call rotations, and designing disaster recovery, load shedding, and regional failover. Requires extensive experience in production software engineering and operating large-scale distributed systems; experience with managed cloud data stores (e.g., Azure Cosmos DB, Azure SQL, DynamoDB, Aurora, Cloud Spanner) and languages such as Go, Python, Ruby, or Rust is highlighted.

GitHub seeks a Principal Systems Engineer to set technical direction and multi-year architecture for its database platform, focusing on MySQL internals, replication topology, failover automation, sharding, capacity planning, kernel/storage tuning, and cloud migrations (especially onto Azure). Role is remote within the United States and requires senior production software and infrastructure experience; reported base salary range is USD 160,200–425,000/year.

Join GitHub's Database Infrastructure team to design and build core database platform components, operate and automate replication and failover, manage storage/kernel tuning and capacity planning, support engineering teams, and contribute to migrations and Azure adoption. Role requires extensive production software and database infrastructure experience (multiple years) and strong expertise with MySQL internals and cloud-managed database operations. US-remote role.

Partner with product and feature teams to design scalable data models, ship SDKs and tooling, define SLOs and operational standards, participate in on-call rotations, and contribute to disaster recovery and regional failover planning for GitHub's database platform. Role requires experience operating large-scale distributed systems and strong software engineering skills in languages such as Go, Python, Ruby, or Rust.

Lead end-to-end product and engineering efforts to improve Copilot code review quality, context, memory, and evaluation infrastructure. Responsibilities include designing evals and metrics, making quality/latency/cost tradeoffs, shaping experiences across VS Code/Copilot app/CLI, and keeping distributed services healthy (including on-call).