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Staff Software Engineer

GitHub· Engineering
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Remote$140.4k - $372.3kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Staff Software Engineer on the Code and Review team focusing on pull request and code review experiences, with emphasis on agent-driven development and AI-assisted workflows. Fully remote role based in the United States.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, test and ship high-quality solutions that scale across GitHub’s services, with a focus on the pull request and code review workflow.
  • Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and code reviews that elevate the team; support others in producing extensible, maintainable code that integrates cleanly with downstream dependencies.
  • Own the health and quality of the systems the team builds, including participating in on-call rotations and live incident response.
  • Contribute across the full pull request product surface — PR creation, code review, merge workflows, and the Files Changed experience — owning features end-to-end from design through delivery.
  • Help evolve the code review and merge experience to support agent-driven development, where AI-authored code must be reviewed, validated, and shipped with the same rigor as human-authored contributions.
  • Write architecture briefs and proposals; carry out code experiments to validate approaches for improving the pull request experience.
  • Collaborate with product, design, and platform engineering to lead technical discussions, including design trade-offs and cost considerations.
  • Guide teams in developing testing strategies, defining success metrics, and integrating customer feedback — while ensuring architecture meets security and compliance standards.
  • Drive the technical roadmap for pull requests and code review, ensuring engineering efforts are strategically prioritized and incorporate new technologies where applicable.

Qualifications

  • 9+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
  • OR Associate’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field AND 7+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
  • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python.
  • OR Doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python.
  • OR equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Software EngineeringMentorship and Technical LeadershipArchitecture and system design
Last updated Jul 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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