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Senior Partner Engineer
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About the role
- As a Senior Partner Engineer, you will work hands‑on with strategic partners, customers and internal teams to build and enable deep integrations across the developer ecosystem, including GitHub Copilot, MCP, GitHub Copilot SDK, and the Copilot CLI.
- You will operate at the intersection of software engineering, product strategy, and partner collaboration, acting as a technical force multiplier-building reference implementations, influencing product direction, and helping partners ship production‑grade integrations that developers love.
- The ideal candidate is a highly autonomous technical person who drives execution, is a confident problem-solver, shapes integrated solutions and brings partner and customer insights back into GitHub's product and partnership strategies to enable long‑term ecosystem success.
Responsibilities
- Customer and Industry Insights: Synthesize partner, customer, and industry insights to identify high‑leverage ecosystem opportunities.
- Advise both partners and internal GitHub teams on where integrations deliver differentiated developer value, and where product or platform gaps exist.
- Deep Technical & AI Enablement: Create and deliver enablement-including documentation, workshops, and hands-on labs for partner SEs, CEs, and field engineers.
- Trusted Advisor & Technology Strategy: Act as the technical voice of partners inside GitHub, surfacing integration friction, API constraints, and ecosystem opportunities.
- Collaborate closely with Product and Engineering teams to shape GitHub's and GitHub Copilot's platform capabilities, prioritization, and developer experience improvements.
- Integration Lifecycle: Own the end-to-end integration lifecycle with partners from design and prototype through hardening, security review, production rollout, and ongoing reliability/observability ensuring integrations meet GitHub-quality bars and scale with developer demand.
- Product Voice and Influence: Act as the technical voice of the partner, providing feedback and escalating pressing issues. Funnel product feedback, surface integration gaps, and influence roadmaps for GitHub and engineering teams.
- Operational Excellence: Define and help implement integration acceptance criteria (performance, security, reliability) and support readiness for partner integrations
- Operational Excellence: Define and help implement integration acceptance criteria (performance, security, reliability) and support readiness for partner integrations; define and instrument success in collaboration with the Product team.
- Over 180 million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate, and more than 77,000 organisations have adopted GitHub Copilot.
Requirements
- 7+ years experience in technical consulting, technical consultative selling, software engineering, or related technical/sales/industry experience.
- Experience with APIs, SDKs, developer platforms, and generative AI practices, large language models (LLMs), or prompt engineering
- Required Qualifications:
- 7+ years experience in business development, partner management, strategy development, corporate development, go-to-market, partner marketing, or related experience
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business or related field AND 5+ years experience in business development, partner management, strategy development, corporate development, go-to-market, partner marketing, or related experience
- OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business or related field AND 3+ years experience in business development, partner management, strategy development, corporate development, go-to-market, partner marketing, or related experience
- OR Doctorate in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business or related field AND 1+ year(s) experience in business development, partner management, strategy development, corporate development, go-to-market, partner marketing, or related experience
- Preferred Qualifications:
- 9+ years experience in business development, partner management, strategy development, corporate development, go-to-market, partner marketing, or related experience.
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business or related field AND 7+ years experience in business development, partner management, strategy development, corporate development, go-to-market, partner marketing, or related experience
- OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business or related field AND 5+ years experience in business development, partner management, strategy development, corporate development, go-to-market, partner marketing, or related experience
- OR Doctorate in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business or related field AND 3+ years experience in business development, partner management, strategy development, corporate development, go-to-market, partner marketing, or related experience
Nice to have
- OR equivalent experience
- 3+ years experience with APIs, SDKs, developer platforms, and generative AI practices, large language models (LLMs), or prompt engineering
- Customer-obsessed
- Diverse and inclusive
- Manager fundamentals
- Leadership principles
- GitHub is the world's leading AI-powered developer platform with 150 million developers and counting.
- We're also home to the biggest open-source community on earth (and 99% of the world's software has open-source code in its DNA).
Company info
- At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work.
- We're remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are-because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms.
- Join us, and let's change the world, together.
- GitHub is the world's leading platform for agentic software development - powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software.
Equal opportunity
- GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles.
- We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life.
- We don't discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences.
- Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!
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- ployees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences
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