staff Software Engineer tech_leadership Remote · Posted Mar 17, 2026

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
Mar 17, 2026
AI Summary
Staff-level engineer designing and shipping AI-powered features at GitHub, including LLM integrations, RAG pipelines, and agentic workflows. Owns technical direction, evaluation frameworks, and mentors engineers while ensuring production reliability at scale.

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Job description

from GitHub careers
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 Copilot is redefining how the world builds software — and Copilot Chat on GitHub.com is where that experience comes to life for millions of developers every day. We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer who combines deep software engineering craft with hands-on applied AI expertise to help shape what that experience becomes. 

 

In this role, you’ll work at the intersection of large language models and production systems — designing and building intelligent, context-aware features that integrate directly into developer workflows at global scale. You’ll drive technical direction for your team, partner closely with product and engineering leadership, and bring the kind of judgment that turns ambiguous AI capabilities into reliable, high-impact product experiences. 

 

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