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.

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.

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).

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 Traffic Team to design, implement, and maintain scalable, reliable traffic-management and load-balancing systems (including the GitHub Load Balancer). Role is remote (UK) and involves working on rate-limiting, routing, DDoS/abuse protections, cloud-native workloads (Azure/AWS/GCP), mentoring, and participating in on-call rotation. Requires multi-year experience building high-traffic platform/infrastructure systems and strong engineering and communication skills.

Work remotely in the United States to lead technical direction for the macOS platform within GitHub Actions. Responsibilities include designing and shipping scalable systems, driving cross-team alignment, on-call incident participation, observability, API design, CI/CD automation, and mentoring engineers. Candidates should have substantial production software experience and familiarity with cloud, distributed systems, and macOS development.

GitHub is hiring a Principal Software Engineer to lead and influence system architecture and technical direction, contribute code, and mentor engineers in testing, quality assurance, and developer tooling. The role emphasizes scalable systems, security and compliance, debugging, deployments, and an AI-forward approach. Location: Remote (United States).