GitHub is hiring a Software Engineer I for the Security Products team to design, implement, and support secret-scanning features. Responsibilities include writing and reviewing code (primarily Ruby, Go, JavaScript), building APIs, automated tests and CI/CD, participating in on-call rotations, and collaborating with engineers, product managers, and designers. Minimum 1 year of relevant software engineering experience; role is remote within the United States. Salary range: USD 69,000–182,900 per year.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lead and grow a distributed Cloud Security engineering team responsible for secure infrastructure configuration, identity and access, IaC and container security, vulnerability management, detection engineering, and incident response across GitHub's cloud environments. Partner with Security, Infrastructure, Platform, Product, and Engineering leaders to define technical roadmaps, coach engineers, manage execution and deliver measurable security outcomes. Role requires senior security engineering experience (qualification options provided in posting).

Principal Engineering Manager responsible for IAM platform areas including identity lifecycle, entitlements, privileged access, federation, and workforce identity providers. Role involves technical leadership, building high-performing teams, cross-functional partnership (Security, Infrastructure, IT, Legal, Compliance), driving migrations and automation, and overseeing reliability and operational maturity. Requires people management experience (5+ years) and senior technical experience as detailed in the posting; base salary range USD 160,200–425,000 per year.

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.