Senior Software Engineer
GitHub · United Kingdom · Engineering
About this role
GitHub is hiring a senior-level Software Engineer based in United Kingdom. The posting calls out experience with Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java.
- Role
- Software Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- senior
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Location
- United Kingdom
- Department
- Engineering
- Posted
- Apr 24, 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
GitHub is the home for software development, where we collaborate to build the world's leading AI-powered developer platform.
In the Code Scanning organization at GitHub, we are passionate about ensuring the security and quality of the world’s software - from open source to the enterprise, written by humans and by AI tools. We believe that the best way to secure and improve the quality of software is to detect actionable issues early in the development process, and actively facilitate their remediation as part of the developer workflow.
Our team develops detection and remediation engines that power several GitHub products used by hundreds of thousands of developers and projects every day: