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
- Mar 20, 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 States
Overview
GitHub is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Copilot API team. This role is focused on shaping and building a robust, scalable, and reliable platform that powers GitHub Copilot and its integrations. You will lead the design and evolution of highly available backend services and APIs, ensuring consistent, performant, and safe access at global scale.
The ideal candidate has deep experience building and operating distributed systems in production and is energized by system behaviour, reliability, performance, and cost at scale. As a staff-level engineer, you will set technical direction, raise the bar on engineering quality, and drive improvements across service health (SLOs/SLIs), incident response, observability, and capacity planning.