Staff Software Engineer
GitHub · United States · Engineering
About this role
GitHub is hiring a staff-level Software Engineer as a remote position. The posting calls out experience with Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java.
- Role
- Software Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- staff
- Track
- Tech leadership
- Location
- United States
- Work mode
- Remote
- Department
- Engineering
- Posted
- Feb 3, 2026
More roles at GitHub
Job description
from GitHub careersGitHub 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.
Locations
In this role you can work from Remote, United States
Overview
GitHub is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Copilot Platform team. This role focuses on maintaining and evolving a robust, scalable, and reliable platform that powers GitHub Copilot and its integrations. You will work on highly available systems that manage the interaction of multiple large language models (LLMs), ensuring consistent, performant, and safe access at scale.
The ideal candidate has hands-on expertise in building and optimizing large-scale distributed systems, including tuning high-throughput services in production. You enjoy digging into technical details, improving resilience, and supporting smooth operation across services that must balance latency, cost, and reliability.
As a Staff Software Engineer on the Copilot API team, you will partner with a distributed, diverse, and passionate team of engineers and product managers across GitHub and other partners including AI frontier labs. The GitHub Copilot Platform underpins the quality, scale, and global availability of Copilot features. Your work will ensure its ongoing reliability, enabling seamless integration for other engineering teams and supporting developers worldwide.