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Staff Software Engineer, Planning & Tracking

GitHub· Engineering
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Hybrid (Remote, United States)$140.4k - $372.3kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Backend-focused senior engineer role owning foundational services for GitHub Issues and Projects, with emphasis on large-scale distributed systems, reliability, observability, and potential Copilot integration. Technical leadership within a distributed team, shaping architecture, roadmaps, and cross-team initiatives.

Responsibilities

  • Build experiences for GitHub Issues and Projects used by millions of people
  • Own and improve GitHub.com codebase from day one
  • Foster technical growth across the team through research and practical adoption of new approaches
  • Write architecture briefs and proposals, run code experiments, and build prototypes for planetary-scale systems
  • Collaborate with engineering leadership to guide technical investments and roadmaps
  • Coordinate with engineering and product leads to define and prioritize projects
  • Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews to grow others

Qualifications

  • 9+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven production software delivery in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
  • OR Associate’s Degree plus 8+ years experience in similar disciplines
  • OR Bachelor's Degree plus 7+ years experience
  • OR Master's Degree plus 5+ years experience
  • OR Doctorate plus 3+ years experience
  • OR equivalent experience
  • 4+ years building and supporting large, high-traffic applications at scale within platform/infrastructure domains (cloud native workloads in Azure/AWS/GCP)
  • 3+ years leading cross-team technical initiatives (architectural decision records, cross-team adoption, mentoring)
  • Experience designing, operating, and debugging large-scale distributed systems with focus on availability, automation, observability, and reliability

Skills

Required:Backend software engineeringDistributed systems design and operation

Benefits

  • Competitive pay and benefits
  • Annual bonus and stock eligibility for certain roles
  • Learning and growth opportunities
  • Remote-friendly with remote-first policy
Last updated Aug 6, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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