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Staff Software Engineer, Code Search
United States · Staff+
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 173 days ago
JavaScriptPythonJavaGoC++C#RubyDistributed SystemsCode ReviewGitMachine LearningLLMsAgentic AIElectrical EngineeringLeadershipCollaborationMentoring
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About the role
- GitHub is shaping the future of software development in the age of AI agents - and search is at the heart of it.
- As GitHub's lexical and semantic code search engine, Blackbird powers context retrieval for business-critical
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test and ship high-quality technical solutions that scale across multiple GitHub services and become intimately familiar with the systems you build and take pride in writing maintainable code.
- support teams in producing extensible and maintainable code, ensuring integration with downstream dependencies and adherence to quality standards.
- Design and implement APIs to facilitate seamless integration between software components.
- Maintain executional and operational excellence within and potentially across teams/organizations.
- Apply debugging tools and telemetry to verify assumptions, proactively resolve issues, and optimize code performance and maintainability.
- Drive and support technical roadmap that aligns with product goals, ensuring that engineering efforts are strategically prioritized and incorporating the adoption of new technologies and methodologies where applicable.
- Work with the team to understand technical constraints, and develop, communicate, and track against realistic plans to consistently ship products, features, and bug fixes.
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews to encourage the growth of others; support teams in producing extensible and maintainable code, ensuring integration with downstream dependencies and adherence to quality standards.
- Great products reflect the teams that build them.
- Own the outcome
Requirements
- Required 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.
Nice to have
- Expertise with systems programming languages - ideally Rust.
- Experience designing or integrating AI/ML-powered features into production systems.
- Compensation Range
- These pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States.
- These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role.
- In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role.
- Customer-obsessed
- Diverse and inclusive
Skills
- experiences across the platform and our Copilot products, including Cloud Agent, Code Review, Copilot CLI, and VS Code.
Compensation
- The base salary range for this job is USD $140,400.00 - USD $372,300.00 /Yr.
- These pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States.
- An individual's base pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant.
- At GitHub certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock.
Benefits
- Own and advocate for the health and quality of the systems that the team builds, including participating in on-call for first responder rotations and live incidents.
Company info
- 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).
- Many of the apps and programs you use every day are built on GitHub.
- Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!).
- 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.
- EEO Statement
- 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!
- We are looking for creative problem solvers and diverse thinkers, people who care about culture as well as customers and features.
- We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to help develop, scale, operate and extend Blackbird including integrating with AI Agents and developing new AI-powered software development workflows.
Visa & Work Authorization
- 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
This listing is sourced directly from GitHub's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.