Staff Engineering Manager GitHub Copilot API
GitHub · United States · Engineering
About this role
GitHub is hiring a staff-level Engineering Manager in the software engineering function based in United States. The posting calls out experience with Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java.
- Role
- Engineering Manager
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- staff
- Track
- hybrid
- Location
- United States
- Department
- Engineering
- Posted
- Apr 7, 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 Engineering Manager to lead the development of the GitHub Copilot AI inference platform. This role involves overseeing the allocation and deployment of GitHub's AI resources, managing high-throughput service infrastructure for inference workloads, and improving the experiment-to-production pipeline. This includes operating orchestration frameworks that support generative AI workloads at scale. The ideal candidate will possess a strategic vision, technical leadership in distributed systems and generative AI serving architectures, as well as the ability to mentor their immediate reporting engineers, build empowered high-trust team, and foster a culture of technical excellence and experimentation.
The AI infrastructure at GitHub is crucial for the future of software development. As Staff Engineering Manager, you will lead the team responsible for this foundation, ensuring efficient, secure, and business-aligned resource deployment.
This is a unique opportunity to shape the systems powering Copilot and other AI-driven experiences globally. We foster a culture that prioritizes developer empathy, transparency, and inclusive collaboration, where curiosity and impact drive our development efforts.