Staff Software Engineer
GitHub · United States · Engineering
About this role
GitHub is hiring a staff-level Software Engineer based in United States. The posting calls out experience with Python, JavaScript, Java, Rust.
- Role
- Software Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- staff
- Track
- Tech leadership
- Location
- United States
- Department
- Engineering
- Posted
- Apr 22, 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’s GraphQL Platform Team builds and operates the core GraphQL infrastructure that powers GitHub’s public and internal APIs, serving more than 2 billion queries per day. The team enables scalable, reliable, and high‑quality API access for millions of developers and GitHub product teams. A major focus of the work is implementing and scaling GraphQL Federation, supporting a distributed services architecture that allows teams across GitHub to independently contribute to a unified schema.
As a Staff Platform Engineer on the GraphQL Platform Team, you’ll be a technical leader helping shape the foundation of GitHub’s GraphQL ecosystem. This is deep platform engineering work — you won’t be building product features or individual GraphQL services. Instead, you’ll design, build, and evolve the infrastructure that enables GraphQL development across the company.