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Staff Software Engineer, Code Scanning

$140,400 - $372,300 Posted 2 months ago
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About the role

What you'll do

  • Lead design, development, and scaling of GitHub's Code Scanning feature within a full-stack agile team.
  • Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and code reviews to promote maintainable and extensible code.
  • Own system health and quality, including participation in on-call rotations and incident response.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally to define technical solutions, APIs, and automated CI/CD pipelines.
  • Drive technical roadmap aligned with product goals, incorporating new technologies like agentic AI.

What you should know

  • This role requires experience with large-scale system architecture and cloud-based microservices.
  • Candidates should be comfortable working in a distributed, remote-first team with global collaboration.
  • Strong emphasis on mentorship, quality engineering practices, and cross-team communication.
  • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge security products using static analysis and AI technologies.
  • Applicants should be prepared for a role involving on-call responsibilities and incident management.

About the company

  • GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with over 150 million developers globally.
  • The company values a customer-obsessed, growth mindset culture emphasizing diversity, inclusion, and collaboration.
  • GitHub supports a remote-first work environment with a strong focus on autonomy and trust.
  • It hosts the largest open-source community and integrates AI to enhance software development workflows.
  • GitHub offers competitive pay, generous learning opportunities, and benefits supporting employee well-being.

Key required skills

GoRubyRustPythonJavaScriptMicroservicesCI/CDAgentic AI

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