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 technical direction for GitHub's Frontend Web UI Platform, focusing on performance, accessibility, consistency, and availability. Drive cross-team migrations and paved paths, produce architecture and design proposals, mentor engineers, and partner with product and design to deliver platform-wide improvements. Role is remote and available to candidates in Canada.

Hands-on senior engineering role building GitHub Copilot Code Review: define and implement how the review agent reasons and which models run, own reliability and on-call for a high-throughput service, design offline and online evaluations, collaborate with research and model teams, and mentor senior staff. Requires extensive software engineering experience and working with models at scale.

Work on GitHub's Code and Review organization to design, implement, and maintain scalable systems (diffs, reviews, mergeability, merge queue, Copilot code review). Responsibilities include API design, CI/CD, telemetry, on-call incident response, architecture proposals, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration. Required experience in production software development with languages such as Go, Ruby, Rust, Python, JavaScript, C/C++, C#, or Java.

Hands-on technical leader responsible for designing, implementing, and operating systems that power pull requests at GitHub scale. Role involves work across Git operations, databases, search/indexing, APIs, asynchronous workflows, production reliability (on-call/incident response), service extraction, and mentoring other engineers. Preferred experience includes Ruby or Go and large-scale distributed systems.

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.

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.

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).

Lead technical direction and large cross-team initiatives for GitHub's frontend platform (performance, accessibility, UX consistency, availability). Drive architecture, standards, paved paths, migrations, and alignment across engineering, product, and design; mentor engineers and produce architecture/design proposals that result in shipped outcomes.

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.

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.

Join GitHub Actions as a Staff Software Engineer to architect and deliver high-performance, cloud-based distributed systems that power CI/CD for millions of developers. The role includes designing APIs, ensuring system reliability and security, participating in on-call rotations, mentoring engineers, and driving the technical roadmap.

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).

Seeking a Staff Software Engineer to design, prototype, implement, ship, and support user-facing features for GitHub Issues and Projects. The role emphasizes front-end work (React, TypeScript) while expecting full-stack capability, experience with scalable systems, AI-powered tools (Copilot integration), mentoring, and cross-team technical leadership. Remote within the United States.

Join GitHub's Git Systems Engineering team to design, implement, and operate highly performant, scalable, and highly available services for hosting Git repositories. Responsibilities include architecture and design, building microservices and proxies, running experiments and prototypes, on-call rotations for live site operations, and providing technical leadership and mentoring. Required: substantial software engineering experience and proficiency in languages such as C/C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python.