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.

The Sr. Director, Brand Strategy will own developer-facing brand and narrative strategy across GitHub and Microsoft developer products, lead a multidisciplinary studio responsible for creative and production, build launch and content production systems, create repeatable customer-evidence and demo storytelling, and implement AI-enabled workflows to scale production while preserving quality. The role requires senior cross-functional collaboration and substantial experience in brand, marketing, and content leadership.

Join GitHub's Elasticsearch team to design, build, and maintain large-scale Elasticsearch clusters, optimize indexing and reindex processes, improve search relevance tooling, and manage cluster availability and performance. Requires substantial experience operating Elasticsearch at scale and producing production software using languages such as Go, Ruby, or Rust.

Work remotely (United States) on GitHub's Copilot Code Review team to own end-to-end features: improve agent review behavior and context, integrate frontier models, balance review quality with latency/cost, prove changes with offline and online evals, and keep a high-throughput service healthy (including on-call rotation). Experience with production software, distributed systems, LLM/agentic products, and languages such as Go, Ruby, TypeScript, or Python is emphasized.

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).

Staff Engineering Manager for GitHub's Licensing team responsible for technical leadership, architecture, and delivery of licensing, subscription access, usage tracking, and billing systems. Role includes people management (hiring, coaching), guiding design and deployment practices, incident escalation for revenue-impacting systems, and partnering with Product and cross-org stakeholders. Remote role based in the United States.

Join GitHub's Core UX organization to lead the frontend web UI platform across performance, accessibility, consistency, and availability. The role focuses on architecture, tooling, standards, migrations, and producing paved paths adopted by many teams while partnering with engineering, product, and design leaders.

Join GitHub's Elasticsearch team to design, build, and operate large-scale Elasticsearch clusters and search infrastructure powering Issues, PRs, Projects, and Discussions. Responsibilities include API design, index management and repair, scaling and availability, mentoring, on-call incident response, CI/CD, and collaboration with cross-functional teams. Qualifications call for substantial experience with Elasticsearch (6+ years noted), general-purpose languages (examples: Go, Ruby, Rust; 6+ years noted), and technical leadership (1+ year noted).

GitHub is hiring a Senior Product Manager to lead fraud/abuse prevention in the commerce domain, owning strategy, roadmap, KPIs, and cross-functional execution across account creation and billing. Role requires experience with payment platforms, fraud/trust & safety, data-informed experimentation, and collaboration with engineering, finance, legal, sales, and support. Listed base salary range: USD 124,000–329,200/year.

Work on the Billing team to build and maintain licensing, metered billing, subscription management, and related financial reporting systems. Responsibilities include designing and operating services at scale (cloud/Azure), driving architecture and reliability decisions, participating in on-call and incident response, mentoring engineers, and collaborating across GitHub and Microsoft. Requires experience maintaining production software (6+ years) and familiarity with cloud platforms and languages such as Go and JavaScript.

Lead technical decision-making and design scalable, reliable solutions for traffic management (rate-limiting, routing). Maintain and improve the GitHub Load Balancer and related systems; write and review code (primarily Go and Ruby/Rails); participate in on-call rotation and mentor other engineers. Required: multi-year software engineering experience (staff level), 4+ years building/supporting large high-traffic platform systems, 4+ years with cloud-native workloads (Azure/AWS/GCP), and 2+ years maintaining a load balancer with abuse/DDoS protection experience.

Work on GitHub's Identity platform designing and implementing backend services (primarily in Go) that power authentication, authorization, and GitHub Apps. Role involves shaping identity strategy, evaluating identity standards (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, etc.), building highly available distributed systems, mentoring engineers, and participating in on-call rotations.

Technical lead responsible for designing, implementing, and operating highly available backend services that power GitHub Issues and Projects. Role emphasizes distributed systems, cloud-native workloads, observability, reliability, and cross-team architectural leadership; requires significant software engineering experience and expertise with large-scale systems and modern web stacks.

GitHub is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for its Identity Core team to design, implement, and support enterprise-focused identity and authorization services. The role requires technical leadership, large-scale system architecture experience (distributed systems/microservices/cloud), hands-on software development across several languages, on-call participation, and collaboration with cross-functional partners.

Lead the Security Lab's developer advocacy strategy to engage security researchers, open source maintainers, and enterprise developers. Produce technical content (blog posts, tutorials, talks, CTFs), represent the Lab at conferences, and influence product teams on security tooling such as CodeQL, Dependabot, secret scanning, and AI-assisted vulnerability detection.

Define and drive GitHub’s multi-model AI strategy and platform roadmap; partner with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and applied science teams to translate research into scalable features. Lead growth experiments, go-to-market efforts, and metrics-driven product decisions. Qualifications include 5+ years in product/related roles (or Bachelor's +3+ years or equivalent) and 3+ years working on AI/ML experiences, developer tooling, or new product development.