Staff Software Engineer

Job Description

Job DescriptionAbout GitHubGitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development — powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 180 million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate, and more than 77,000 organisations have adopted GitHub Copilot. LocationsIn this role you can work from Remote, United StatesOverviewThe GitHub Security Products team is on a mission to secure the world’s software.

We’re building tools that make it easy to find, fix and prevent code vulnerabilities and credential leaks, and are deploying them to millions of developers. Every day, developers unintentionally commit secrets into their repositories. Without intervention, this can cause damaging privacy and monetary losses. We’re solving that.

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to lead the development of foundational components and help drive the 10x evolution of this product in the near future as we continue to find new ways to secure the emerging AI powered workloads on the platform. This role is critical in a fast-paced environment where you can make a high-impact contribution.

You will contribute through strong technical implementation, thoughtful design decisions, and collaboration across teams. You’ll help uphold architectural standards, reinforce best practices for system performance, and identify opportunities to improve reliability and scale. Your contributions will directly shape the stability and growth of core infrastructure that backs supporting security product infrastructures.

We value developer empathy, transparency, and inclusive collaboration. At GitHub, curiosity and impact drive everything we build. ResponsibilitiesOur team is distributed worldwide which means we work both asynchronously and real-time.

Your typical week would include: Lead and influence system architecture design for complex products and solutions, ensuring they meet security, compliance, and performance requirements. Establish and mentor best practices for testing, performance tuning, and code quality, defining success metrics and ensuring maintainability across dependencies.

Provide technical leadership during code reviews to ensure reliability, scalability, and alignment with product goals. Partner with product managers and technical leads to define service requirements and incorporate feedback into future designs. Act as an expert in debugging tools and methods, leading proactive and reactive development to resolve issues across teams.

Optimize deployments and runtime performance to meet business objectives, ensuring safe rollouts aligned with GitHub’s standards. Drive improvements in development quality and team performance through tooling, automation, and knowledge sharing. Lead product refinement through telemetry analysis, performance metrics, and experimentation frameworks to inform engineering decisions.

Develop strategies to identify and mitigate technical risks, including frameworks for risk assessment and contingency planning. Shape the strategic vision for technology and product development, identifying opportunities for innovation and leading initiatives aligned with GitHub’s long-term goals. Qualifications9+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or PythonOR associate’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ years’ experience in software engineering, computer science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python.

OR bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field AND 7+ years’ experience in software engineering, computer science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, Go, Ruby, Rust, Python, JavaScript, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, and PythonOR master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years’ experience in software engineering, computer science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python. OR doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years’ experience in software engineering, computer science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust or Python. OR equivalent experience.

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