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Staff Software Engineer

Posted 12 days ago
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Ruby on RailsReactTypeScriptJavaScript

About the role

What you'll do

  • Lead design and development of pull request and code review workflows used by over 100 million developers.
  • Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and code reviews to elevate team quality and maintainability.
  • Own system health, participate in on-call rotations and live incident response for critical services.
  • Drive the technical roadmap and collaborate cross-functionally to evolve features end-to-end from design to delivery.
  • Innovate the pull request experience to support AI-driven development and new collaboration patterns.

What you should know

  • This role offers the chance to impact the core collaboration experience for millions of developers worldwide.
  • Candidates should be prepared for a highly autonomous, remote work environment with emphasis on async communication.
  • The position requires balancing technical depth with product empathy to build developer tools that matter.
  • Applicants will face challenges evolving legacy systems and integrating AI-assisted development workflows.
  • There are strong opportunities for mentorship, leadership, and influencing strategic engineering direction.

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 focused on ownership and collaboration.
  • GitHub supports a remote-first work environment emphasizing async communication, deep work, and trust.
  • It hosts the largest open-source community, powering 99% of the world’s software with open-source code.
  • GitHub is committed to diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunity across all aspects of hiring and employment.

Key required skills

CC++C#JavaJavaScriptGoRubyRustPythonRuby on RailsReactTypeScriptGit internalsFull-stack development

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