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).

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).

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.

GitHub is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for the Enterprise AI Governance team (US remote). The role involves designing, prototyping, implementing, and operating highly available, secure backend services and APIs that provide enterprise controls for Copilot (policy enforcement, auditing, configuration management). Responsibilities include technical leadership, system design, CI/CD, on-call participation, collaboration with product and security teams, and driving operational excellence. Salary range listed: USD 140,400–372,300 per year.

The role owns and evolves high-availability, multi-tenant backend services (Sessions/Tasks APIs) for GitHub Copilot, working across API design, Go services, Azure CosmosDB/Blob Storage, and event-driven systems. Candidates should have senior-level experience operating distributed backend systems, public/partner-facing API design, and practical experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, feature-flag rollouts, and production ownership.

Join GitHub Actions as a Staff Software Engineer to design, implement, and operate high-performance, cloud-based systems that run CI/CD for millions of developers. Responsibilities include system architecture, APIs, operational excellence (on-call/incident response), security for untrusted code execution, mentoring, and driving technical roadmaps. Multiple programming languages and large-scale distributed systems experience required.

Hire for a Senior Software Engineer on the Code Scanning Engine Quality team at GitHub (work from Spain or remote). The role focuses on delivering CodeQL-powered analysis in production (GitHub.com/GHES), building CI/release tooling, improving offline evaluation, and working with cross-functional teams to improve security, reliability, and developer experience. Requires significant software engineering experience and hands-on work with languages such as C/C++, C#, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python.

Embed with product and infrastructure teams to own complex production problems end-to-end, design and operate software and infrastructure for production, improve observability, capacity planning, performance and resiliency, automate operational workflows, participate in incident response, and mentor engineers to build Production Engineering as a discipline.

Join the GitHub Copilot AI Models team as a Staff Software Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable backend services and APIs powering Copilot. Responsibilities include system design, implementation, testing, CI/CD, on-call participation, mentoring, writing architecture proposals, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Required experience includes substantial production software engineering and familiarity with multiple programming languages and cloud/CNCF concepts.

Remote Principal Software Engineer role at GitHub owning the web UI platform architecture, tooling, and standards. Responsibilities include driving cross-team migrations and initiatives, establishing frontend patterns and paved paths, producing architecture proposals, and mentoring engineers. Qualifications span extensive software engineering experience and deep frontend knowledge (React/Angular, SSR, performance, accessibility, TypeScript/JavaScript/CSS).

GitHub is hiring a Staff Software Engineer (remote, Canada) for the Pathfinders team to define and drive the developer platform, build automation and paved-path templates, and operate fleet-wide systems. Responsibilities include designing large cross-team architectures, writing and reviewing production code (primarily Go and Ruby), participating in on-call and incident response, and mentoring engineers. The role expects significant experience in backend/platform/infrastructure engineering and delivering production systems.

Lead technical direction and deliver large cross-team architectures for GitHub's internal developer platform. Work primarily in Go and Ruby on tooling, automation, scaffolding, and agent-driven operational systems; participate in on-call and incident response and mentor engineers. Position is US-remote with a stated base salary range of USD 140,400–372,300 per year.

Join GitHub's Code Scanning Engine Quality team to develop and operate CodeQL-powered analysis across production (GitHub.com, GHES), build CI pipelines and internal developer platforms, and improve offline evaluation and release processes. Role emphasizes quality, reliability, and collaboration with engineering, product, and user communities. Requires several years of software engineering experience with languages such as C/C++, C#, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python and experience in areas like software security, DevOps, CI, or ML for code.