Remote role (United Kingdom) at GitHub on the Code Scanning Language Coverage team. Responsibilities include maintaining and expanding language coverage for CodeQL, partnering to build scalable cross-language solutions, unifying analysis technology across languages, and working with engineering, product, and users to deliver secure, high-quality features. Requires software engineering experience with production coding in multiple languages and experience in areas such as software security, CI/DevOps, automation frameworks, or machine learning applied to source code.

Work as a Senior Software Engineer on distributed, cross-functional teams to design, prototype, implement, ship, and support performant user experiences and scalable services. Responsibilities include API design, CI/CD and automated pipelines, system health and on-call rotations, architecture briefs, code reviews, mentorship, and collaboration with engineers and designers. Qualifications list 6+ / 5+ / 4+ / 2+ years experience depending on degree (minimum explicitly listed: 2+ years) or equivalent experience. Role is remote within the United States.

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.

Design, prototype, implement, ship, and support performant, resilient, scalable solutions across multiple GitHub services. Provide technical leadership, mentorship, code reviews, and participate in on-call/incident response. Work includes API design, CI/CD, distributed systems, database optimization, and building telemetry. Role lists experience with languages such as Go, Ruby, Rust, Python, JavaScript, C/C++, C#, and Java.

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.

Join GitHub as a Staff Software Engineer working on Blackbird, the lexical and semantic code search engine powering core search and Copilot products. The role involves designing, implementing, scaling, operating, and extending search systems and integrations with AI agents, contributing to architecture, on-call rotations, telemetry, APIs, and mentoring. Requires extensive experience in software engineering, distributed systems, search or generative AI architectures; systems programming (Rust preferred) and production-scale system experience are highlighted.

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.

Join GitHub's Security Services organization to perform large-scale security and architectural reviews, analyze complex security issues, drive remediation and mitigations, integrate security into software design and deployment, produce secure engineering guidance, and communicate risks to technical and non-technical stakeholders. Role requires experience in security analysis/research/engineering and at least 1 year of coding or software development experience; preferred experience includes cloud security and vulnerability management.

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.

Join the Vulnerability Management Engineering team to design, build, and operate systems that collect security findings from code, containers, hosts and cloud, match findings to owning teams, enforce software supply chain controls, and track remediation and compliance (e.g., FedRAMP). Role involves backend/distributed systems development, cloud and container work, on-call participation, technical leadership, and cross-functional collaboration.

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.

Remote (United Kingdom) Staff Software Engineer role on GitHub's Git Systems Engineering team: design, develop, test, and operate large-scale distributed services that power Git hosting. Responsibilities include system architecture, prototyping, performance and reliability engineering, mentoring, cross-team coordination, and on-call operations. Required: multiple years of software engineering experience and production software delivery in languages such as C/C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python.

Work on backend services and APIs to integrate AI/model providers for GitHub Copilot, delivering end-to-end features and operating production systems. Responsibilities include design, implementation, testing, deployment, observability, reliability improvements, progressive delivery, incident response, and cross-team collaboration. Requires experience developing and running cloud-native, high-availability services and familiarity with model/provider integrations.

Join GitHub's Billing team to own and evolve metered billing systems that serve millions of users. Work across backend, APIs, and frontend; participate in on-call rotations and incident response; drive architecture, reliability, testing, and compliance. Remote-first role based in the United States.

Join GitHub's Copilot Agents organization to design, implement, and operate systems that enable AI agents to acquire, retain, and apply software-development context (agent memory, context retrieval, search, knowledge graphs). Role involves end-to-end platform and API development, defining technical direction, establishing evaluation and telemetry, ensuring privacy/security, participating in on-call rotations, and mentoring engineers. Requires substantial production software engineering experience and familiarity with languages such as Rust, Go, Python, TypeScript, or similar.

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.