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Principal Software Engineer, Copilot Code Review

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Hybrid (Remote United States)$160.2k - $425kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Technical owner of Copilot code review systems, responsible for end-to-end review experience, reliability, and guiding product and research collaboration. Hands-on role focused on solving hard technical problems and building evaluation frameworks for model-driven reviews.

Responsibilities

  • Drive how the review agent works: the context it reasons over, the models it runs, and what it carries across reviews.
  • Bet on where model capability is heading, and work with model labs and research teams to turn it into better reviews.
  • Define what a great AI review is, and hold the product to it with offline evals, online experiments, and production evidence.
  • Own the quality of the end-to-end review experience across VS Code, the GitHub Copilot app, and the GitHub Copilot CLI, and pull requests.
  • Own the reliability of a high-throughput service running at GitHub scale, including the on-call rotation.
  • Mentor senior and staff engineers, collaborate across disciplines, and help steer the team and product, all while staying hands-on: experimenting, shipping code, and building evals.
  • Work at the frontier of how software gets built with agents and evolve workflows that make the whole team faster.

Qualifications

  • 11+ 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 10+ 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 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 Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, 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 Doctorate 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 equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Software engineering leadership
Nice to have:GoRubyTypeScriptPython

Benefits

  • Base salary in the range USD $160,200.00 - USD $425,000.00 /Yr.
Last updated Aug 20, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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