Staff Software Engineer, Traffic Team
GitHub · United Kingdom · Engineering
About this role
GitHub is hiring a staff-level Software Engineer based in United Kingdom. The posting calls out experience with Python, JavaScript, Java, Go.
- Role
- Software Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- staff
- Track
- Tech leadership
- Location
- United Kingdom
- Department
- Engineering
- Posted
- May 14, 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 changing the way the world builds software, and we want you to help lead this effort.
The Traffic Team plays a critical role in GitHub's scalability and resiliency. GitHub’s Traffic team is responsible for every packet into and out of GitHub’s edge and delivers a foundational load balancing platform for all of its services. The team’s objective is to ensure that GitHub continues to operate industry-leading services at global scale, and to ensure internal engineering teams have the tools and processes necessary to build on top of our platform with as little friction as possible.
As a Staff Software Engineer on the Traffic Team, you will work closely with a distributed, diverse, and passionate team of engineers to improve and maintain part of the platform that millions of developers worldwide rely on in their software development cycle.