GitHub seeks a Product Security Engineer III to design, build, and maintain security platforms and tooling (static analysis pipelines, secret scanning, dependency analysis, CI/CD integrations, and agentic security tooling). The role requires software engineering experience with a focus on application security and at least 1 year of relevant experience (multiple higher-year experience options listed), plus programming experience in at least two of: Ruby, Go, Python.

Join GitHub's Copilot AI Models team to design, implement, and operate highly available backend services and APIs that power Copilot. Responsibilities include system design, reliability and performance improvements, CI/CD automation, on-call participation, and mentoring. Qualifications span multi-year software engineering experience and proficiency in languages such as Go, Python, Java, C/C++, C#, JavaScript, Ruby, or Rust.

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.

Join GitHub Enterprise Cloud Platform as a Staff Software Engineer to lead architecture and technical strategy for multi-region provisioning, automation, capacity management, and service onboarding. Role includes owning cross-cutting initiatives, driving reliability and scalability, mentoring engineers, and operating with significant autonomy. Qualifications include extensive software engineering experience and hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code and on-call incident response.

Remote Staff Research Engineer role on GitHub Next focused on turning ambitious AI and software development ideas into working prototypes and products. Requires deep software development and research experience (minimum 8 years options described), prototyping skills, familiarity with ML/AI, frontend/backend stacks, and collaboration across teams and stakeholders.

Work on GitHub Enterprise Cloud Platform to build and operate provisioning, networking, compute, storage, DNS, and service onboarding automation for multi-region Azure deployments. Lead platform investments to improve deployment velocity and safety, enhance operational tooling and incident response, and provide on-call support including post-incident retrospectives. Required qualifications include substantial software engineering experience (various degree/experience combinations), experience with IaC (e.g., Terraform, Bicep, Pulumi), Azure capacity management, AI-assisted development tools, and extensive on-call experience.

GitHub is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Data Engineering) to design, implement, and maintain scalable services and data systems. The role emphasizes cloud and Azure technologies (Cosmos DB, Azure Storage, Azure Redis, Azure Data Explorer), distributed systems, APIs, CI/CD, performance optimization, testing, on-call response, and cross-functional collaboration. Required experience ranges (various degree/experience combinations); listing includes 2+ years for some qualification paths and a 6+ years option.

Lead the architecture and implementation of high-scale identity systems (authentication, authorization, identity federation) for GitHub's platform. Partner with Security, Platform, AI, and Product teams to define strategy, ensure security/compliance, improve developer tooling and deployments, and mentor engineering teams. Systems must be secure, reliable, and scalable to handle billions of requests daily.

Lead the technical direction and architecture for a unified Enterprise AI control plane at GitHub spanning models, agents, tools, permissions, spend, plugins, and client settings. Responsibilities include architecting scalable policy engines and governance primitives, driving cross-client consistency, solving large-scale distributed systems problems, influencing platform strategy, and mentoring senior engineers. Role requires substantial software engineering experience (minimum 5 years in some degree scenarios) and production coding experience in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python.

Join GitHub’s npm team as a full‑stack Software Engineer III to develop, maintain, and secure open‑source JavaScript package tooling. Responsibilities include writing and reviewing code and documentation, collaborating with internal and external stakeholders and community contributors, triaging and remediating bugs and vulnerabilities, and delivering features for large‑scale developer systems. Minimum experience paths include several options (examples: 4+ years professional experience, or 2+ years with a Bachelor’s).

The role leads technical direction for compute lifecycle, configuration management, image pipelines, infrastructure orchestration, and fleet automation across GitHub's platform. It focuses on building Azure paved paths and cloud-native patterns, writing and reviewing code (primarily in Go), participating in on-call rotations and incident response, and mentoring other engineers in a remote, distributed environment.

Remote Staff Software Engineer role at GitHub on the Git Storage subteam. Work on designing, building, testing, and operating large-scale distributed systems and microservices that store and serve Git repositories. Responsibilities include architecture, implementation, on-call operations, performance and scalability improvements, mentoring, and cross-team coordination. Requires substantial software engineering experience and strong written communication for asynchronous collaboration.

Join GitHub's API Gateway team to define multi-year architecture and technical strategy for traffic management, design and implement scalable solutions (rate-limiting, routing, global traffic), author ADRs, lead cross-team reliability efforts, mentor engineers, and participate in on-call. Requires extensive production software experience and hands-on knowledge of cloud-native platforms and proxies/load balancers.

Join GitHub’s Git Systems Engineering team as a Principal Software Engineer to design, develop, and operate high-performance, scalable services powering Git operations. The role involves cross-team technical leadership, architectural design, prototyping, mentoring, on-call service maintenance, and collaboration with product and engineering stakeholders. Requires substantial software engineering experience and proficiency in one or more languages listed in the posting.

Join GitHub's Database Infrastructure team to design, build, and operate core database systems (MySQL) at scale. Responsibilities include building self-service tooling, operating and administering databases, participating in on-call rotations, diagnosing performance and availability issues, and developing disaster recovery and failover plans.

Join GitHub's distributed Traffic Team to design, implement, and operate scalable, reliable traffic and load-balancing systems (including the GitHub Load Balancer). Responsibilities include architecture and technical leadership, coding (primarily Go and Ruby), mentoring, participating in on-call rotation, and improving DDoS/abuse protection and routing/rate-limiting at global scale. Requires several years of production software experience and experience building/supporting high-traffic cloud-native systems.

Remote (United States) Product Security Engineer III at GitHub responsible for designing, building, and maintaining security tooling and automation (static analysis pipelines, secret scanning, dependency analysis, supply chain defenses, CI/CD integrations). Requires programming experience (Ruby, Go, Python), experience building security tooling, and a minimum of 1+ year up to 5+ years depending on qualifications. Salary range USD 107,700–285,900/year.

Remote Staff Software Engineer on GitHub's Monolith Fitness teams. Responsibilities include designing, prototyping, implementing, shipping and supporting scalable services and APIs; participating in on-call rotations and incident response; writing architecture proposals; automating CI/CD pipelines; applying telemetry and debugging; and mentoring engineers. Qualifications list multi-year experience options (examples: 9+ years with no degree, or 5+ years with a master's, or 3+ years with a doctorate). Salary range provided: USD 140,400–372,300 / year.

Join GitHub's Copilot Agents organization to design, implement, and operate Blackbird—the platform's lexical and semantic code search engine. Responsibilities include building scalable, high-performance code search, integrating AI/ML features and agents, driving technical roadmap, participating in on-call rotations, and mentoring other engineers. Required experience ranges (minimum explicitly stated in posting is 3+ years in certain qualification paths); preferred experience includes web-scale search, systems programming (Rust), and AI/ML integration.

Senior engineering role to design, implement, operate and scale GitHub's lexical and semantic code search (Blackbird) used across GitHub and Copilot products. Responsibilities include architecture, API design, performance and reliability, on-call incident response, mentoring, and integrating AI/ML-powered features. Qualifications list experience levels down to 3+ years depending on degree; strong experience in distributed systems, search at scale, reliability, and systems programming (Rust preferred) is highlighted.