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Senior Software Engineer, Copilot Code Review

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Hybrid (Remote United States)$124k - $329.2kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer responsible for end-to-end ownership of Copilot code review features, from agent behavior to developer-facing interfaces, with an emphasis on evaluating and shipping improvements to AI-powered reviews at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Improve how the agent reviews: the context it uses, what it remembers, and how it handles a pull request as it changes over time.
  • Integrate frontier models and weigh review quality against latency and cost.
  • Prove changes with offline and online evals and help sharpen the evals themselves.
  • Work on the end-to-end review experience developers use in VS Code, the GitHub Copilot app, and the GitHub Copilot CLI, and on pull requests.
  • Drive down false positives and the comments developers scroll past.
  • Keep a high-throughput service healthy at GitHub scale, including an on-call rotation.
  • Work at the frontier of how software gets built with agents and evolve workflows that make the whole team faster.

Qualifications

  • 6+ 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 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 Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ 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 2+ 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.
  • OR equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Software engineeringProgramming languages
Nice to have:GoRubyTypeScriptPythonDistributed systems
Last updated Sep 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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