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Staff Software Engineer, Enterprise Platform

GitHub71 open roles

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$140,400 – $372,300 a year
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United States
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12.1% of postings close within 7 days. Measured by our own scanner across the market. GitHub postings stay open a median of 52 days.

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GitHub median: 52 days open

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About GitHub

GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development — powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software. 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.

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In this role you can work from Remote, United States

Overview

GitHub is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Enterprise Platform team, focussed on building AI Governance, Policy Controls and Observability for Github and Copilot. You will build the platforms, services, and controls that help enterprise customers securely configure, govern, and operate GitHub Copilot at scale.

This is a hands-on platform engineering role centered on cross-team integration, workflows, and state management. You will turn customer and business requirements into clear APIs, coherent domain models, enforceable policies, and reliable production services. The work spans questions such as which service owns a configuration change, how that change moves through dependent systems, when it takes effect, and what evidence administrators need to understand the result.

You will design reliable behavior across service boundaries: clear ownership of state, explicit workflow transitions, safe retries, handling of partial failures, and compatible API and event contracts. Success means more than choosing an architecture. It means explaining the tradeoffs, implementing the critical paths, agreeing on integration contracts with partner teams, and owning the system in production.

Deep production engineering experience is essential. Prior AI or LLM experience is valuable but not required. We welcome engineers who have personally designed, implemented, and operated services that coordinate workflows and state across multiple systems. We value clear reasoning about service contracts, data ownership, failure behavior, and safe evolution. Experience building an AI integration is useful when accompanied by evidence of correctness, evaluation, and operational ownership.

You will partner with product, design, security, and other Copilot engineering teams to make governance capabilities trustworthy and straightforward to adopt across various client surfaces. We value curiosity, maintainable systems, clear communication, and collaboration. How we build is as important as what we ship.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, test, ship, and support backend services and APIs for enterprise configuration, policy enforcement, and auditing.
  • Develop clear domain models and API and event contracts, including state ownership, resource lifecycles, authorization boundaries, and compatibility.
  • Implement workflows across dependent services, with explicit state transitions, idempotent operations, and recovery from interrupted or partially completed work.
  • Lead architecture decisions by framing the customer problem, identifying constraints, evaluating alternatives, and making correctness, reliability, cost, and usability tradeoffs explicit.
  • Remain close to implementation through coding, debugging, prototyping, pairing, and code review. Help other engineers build extensible, maintainable software.
  • Partner with teams that own upstream and downstream services to agree on integration contracts, dependency behavior, and ownership. Design versioning, staged rollouts, and migrations that consumers can adopt safely.
  • Own service health through meaningful telemetry, actionable alerts, incident response, and participation in on-call and first-responder rotations.
  • Establish success criteria before launch. Use automated tests, production telemetry, customer feedback, and, where relevant, AI evaluations to identify failures and measure improvement.
  • Build and improve CI/CD pipelines and release practices that support safe, repeatable delivery.
  • Write architecture briefs and proposals that make complex decisions understandable and support alignment across teams.
  • Drive a technical roadmap aligned with product goals, balancing customer capabilities with reliability, security, maintainability, and engineering cost.

Qualifications

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.
  • 2+ years experience in technical leadership roles such as technical lead, team lead or equivalent.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience building shared enterprise capabilities such as policy enforcement, configuration management, or auditing, with ownership of implementation and production operation.
  • Experience with asynchronous workflows, event-driven integrations, or reconciliation between systems with different data models or lifecycle semantics.
  • Experience building AI-assisted workflows or agent-based systems, including tool integration, evaluations, failure analysis, and quality, latency, and cost tradeoffs.
  • Experience with Go, Ruby, or similar general-purpose programming languages.
  • Experience partnering closely with product management and design on administrator-facing or developer-facing products.

Compensation Range

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. 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.

This position will be open for a minimum of 3 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

GitHub values

  • Customer-obsessed
  • Ship to learn
  • Growth mindset
  • Own the outcome
  • Better together
  • Diverse and inclusive

Manager fundamentals

  • Model
  • Coach
  • Care

Leadership principles

  • Create clarity
  • Generate energy
  • Deliver success

Who We Are

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!

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