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Staff Software Engineer

$140,400 - $372,300 Posted 7 days ago
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About the role

What you'll do

  • Design, develop, and scale GitHub's Code Scanning feature within a full-stack agile team focused on security products.
  • Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and code reviews to promote maintainable, extensible code and high quality standards.
  • Own system health and quality, participate in on-call rotations, and respond to live incidents to ensure reliability.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally to design APIs, implement CI/CD pipelines, and drive technical roadmaps aligned with product goals.
  • Apply debugging tools and telemetry to proactively resolve issues and optimize performance in highly scalable, cloud-based systems.

What you should know

  • This role offers opportunities to work on high-impact security products used by millions globally, including Fortune 100 companies.
  • Candidates should be prepared for a high-autonomy, trust-based environment with strong emphasis on technical ownership and mentorship.
  • The team values a culture of candor, continuous learning, and psychological safety to encourage open communication.
  • Applicants will engage with complex, large-scale cloud systems and contribute to evolving AI-driven developer tools.
  • Expect collaboration across multiple teams and stakeholders, requiring strong communication and leadership skills.

About the company

  • GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with over 150 million developers and extensive open-source community.
  • The company values a customer-obsessed, growth mindset culture emphasizing diversity, inclusion, and collaboration.
  • GitHub operates as a remote-first company with a distributed workforce and location-agnostic meetings.
  • They focus on innovation in AI and security, driving humanitarian efforts and pioneering open-source technology.
  • GitHub offers competitive pay, generous learning opportunities, and excellent benefits supporting flexible work styles.

Key required skills

GoRubyRustPythonJavaScriptCC++C#JavaMicroservicesCI/CDAPI designCloud architecture

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