staff Software Engineer tech_leadership 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.

Role
Software Engineer
Function
software engineering
Level
staff
Track
Tech leadership
Location
United States
Work mode
Remote
Department
Engineering
Posted
Mar 20, 2026
AI Summary
Staff-level engineer architecting high-performance systems for GitHub Actions, a CI/CD platform processing billions of jobs monthly. Design scalable solutions, provide technical leadership and mentorship, own system reliability through on-call rotations, and champion security for untrusted code execution across distributed teams.

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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

Role Overview: 

GitHub is growing its Engineering team and seeks experienced professionals to elevate our software engineering efforts. As a Staff Software Engineer at GitHub, you will architect and deliver high-performance systems that power collaboration for millions of developers. You will drive technical execution from design through production, leading initiatives across distributed teams. 

 

Within GitHub’s ecosystem, Actions powers automation for millions of developers worldwide, enabling them to build, test, and deploy code directly from their repositories. As the backbone of CI/CD workflows across GitHub, Actions processes billions of jobs monthly, from simple builds to complex deployment pipelines spanning multiple environments. Our team owns the core infrastructure and services that make this possible, ensuring reliability at a massive scale. We're a group of engineers passionate about developer productivity, tackling challenges in distributed systems, container orchestration, security, and cloud infrastructure. You'll work alongside talented colleagues who value collaboration, operational excellence, and building products that developers love.  

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