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Staff Software Engineer
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JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonJavaGoC++C#RubyReactRailsFull-Stack DevelopmentAlgorithmsCode ReviewGitPlatform EngineeringLLMsAgentic AIElectrical EngineeringLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoring
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About the role
- As a Staff Software Engineer on the Code and Review team, you will shape the pull request and code review experience used by over 100 million developers.
- Agent-driven software development is changing how code is written, reviewed, and shipped.
- You'll help define what that future looks like.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test and ship high-quality solutions that scale across GitHub's services, with a focus on the pull request and code review workflow. Take pride in writing maintainable code and becoming deeply familiar with the systems you build.
- support others in producing extensible, maintainable code that integrates cleanly with downstream dependencies.
- Contribute across the full pull request product surface - PR creation, code review, merge workflows, and the Files Changed experience - owning features end-to-end from design through delivery.
- carry out code experiments to validate approaches for improving the pull request experience.
- Collaborate with product, design, and platform engineering to lead technical discussions, including design trade-offs and cost considerations.
- Guide teams in developing testing strategies, defining success metrics, and integrating customer feedback - while ensuring architecture meets security and compliance standards.
- Drive the technical roadmap for pull requests and code review, ensuring engineering efforts are strategically prioritized and incorporate new technologies where applicable.
- Own the outcome
- Create clarity
- Deliver success
Requirements
- Track record of mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar across a team or organization.
- Help evolve the code review and merge experience to support agent-driven development, where AI-authored code must be reviewed, validated, and shipped with the same rigor as human-authored contributions.
- 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
- o 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
- o 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.
- o 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.
- o OR equivalent experience.
- Experience building and operating large-scale web applications serving millions of users, with a focus on reliability, performance, and iterative delivery.
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-team technical initiatives from problem definition through shipping and iteration.
Nice to have
- Experience with Ruby on Rails, React, TypeScript, or Go in production, and comfort working full-stack from database to browser.
- Deep familiarity with Git internals, diff algorithms, or code review tooling - as a contributor or a power user who understands the domain deeply.
- Experience in large-scale monolith codebases with a track record of incremental modernization that balances stability with velocity.
- Interest in or experience with AI-assisted development workflows - how LLMs and autonomous agents are changing code authorship, review, and the SDLC.
- Passion for developer experience - you've contributed to open source, shaped internal tooling, or built products that make other engineers more effective.
- 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.
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 the health and quality of the systems the team builds, including participating in on-call rotations and live incident response.
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!
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
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