Senior Software Engineer
GitHub · United Kingdom · Engineering
About this role
GitHub is hiring a senior-level Software Engineer as a remote position. The posting calls out experience with Python, JavaScript, Java, Rust.
- Role
- Software Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- senior
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Location
- United Kingdom
- Work mode
- Remote
- Department
- Engineering
- Posted
- Jan 21, 2026
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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 Kingdom
Overview
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Issues Platform team at GitHub, you will enhance the collaboration experience by working closely with a community of engineers and designers on a distributed, diverse and passionate team delivering the services that millions of developers depend on. In this role you will design, prototype, implement, ship and support highly performant systems with your team.
The Issues Platform team is a subteam of the broader GitHub Issues team within the Core Productivity engineering organization. Our core strategy is to invest in making Issues a reliable, fast and flexible solution that scales with the growth of our user base. We are a platform team, which means our customers are both the millions of developers who use GitHub Issues daily and the internal product teams who build features on top of our platform. We measure our success by service level objectives, the ability of partner teams to iterate rapidly on new features, and customer feedback on reliability and performance.