Staff Software Engineer, Git Systems

GitHub · United States · Engineering

staff Software Engineer tech_leadership 9+ yrs Associate's Remote · Posted Mar 20, 2026

About this role

GitHub is hiring a staff-level Software Engineer as a remote position. The posting calls out experience with Python, JavaScript, Java, Rust and roughly 9+ years of relevant work. Listed education preference: a associate's degree or equivalent.

Role
Software Engineer
Function
software engineering
Level
staff
Track
Tech leadership
Location
United States
Work mode
Remote
Experience
9+ years
Education
Associate's degree
Department
Engineering
Posted
Mar 20, 2026
AI Summary
Staff-level engineer designing and operating highly scalable Git microservices and infrastructure at GitHub's platform scale. Requires 9+ years of software engineering experience with production coding in languages like C, C++, Go, Rust, or Python. Lead technical design, mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and maintain on-call operations for critical services.
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Job description

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About GitHub

GitHub 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 seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Git Systems Engineering team, which runs the largest code-hosting platform in the world, part of our Platform and Infrastructure organization. Our group is responsible for the services that store and serve Git repositories, both directly to users and to other layers in the GitHub software stack. We build the various microservices, protocols, proxies, and control systems that power Git operations at GitHub and operate them at scale. 

 

Our group is highly distributed and the right candidate will thrive in an environment of asynchronous communication. We expect you to have excellent written communication skills and be able to create working relationships with coworkers in locations around the globe. 

 

This role is focused on wide-reaching, cross-team work to improve our git code-hosting platform. This role will be involved in the design, rollout and support of highly performant, highly scalable, and highly available services to enable the next generation of AI-driven software development. 

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