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Staff Software Engineer, Pull Request Platform

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

About the role

GitHub seeks a Staff Software Engineer to lead the Pull Request Platform, focusing on reliability, scalability, and platform infrastructure while guiding architecture and engineering practices across related teams.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the architecture, design, implementation, and evolution of systems that power pull requests at GitHub scale.
  • Help define and execute the Pull Request Platform technical roadmap, aligning engineering investments with reliability, scalability, and service-extraction priorities.
  • Solve complex technical challenges spanning Git operations, databases, search and indexing, APIs, and asynchronous workflows.
  • Design, develop, test, and ship maintainable solutions that operate across multiple GitHub services.
  • Own and advocate for the health of the team’s production systems, including participating in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident improvements.
  • Set high standards for operational safety, testing, observability, deployment practices, and production rollouts.
  • Write architecture briefs and technical proposals, conduct code experiments, and clearly communicate tradeoffs and operational risks.
  • Partner across engineering teams to define scalable interfaces, reduce system friction, and lead initiatives such as service extraction and platform hardening.
  • Provide technical leadership through mentorship, pairing, code and design reviews, and guidance that helps other engineers deliver extensible, maintainable systems.
  • Improve engineering and operational excellence through automation, tooling, and standardization across testing, deployment, and operations.

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 architectureDistributed systemsLeadership and mentorshipOn-call and incident response
Last updated Oct 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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