Position Details

Salary $140K – $372K USD / year

Type Full-Time

Experience lead

Exp. Years 9+ years

Education Not Specified

Category Software Engineering

About this role

Staff Software Engineer on the Code and Review team, responsible for designing and delivering scalable pull request and code review experiences for millions of developers.

Key Responsibilities

Design, develop, test and ship high-quality solutions that scale across GitHub’s services
Provide technical leadership and code reviews
Own health and quality of systems including on-call
Contribute across PR product surface end-to-end
Guide architecture and experimentation

Technical Overview

Focus on building and maintaining systems behind PR creation, code review, and integration workflows; leadership and mentoring; ensuring security and on-call readiness; exploration of AI-assisted development and agent-driven workflows.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a senior staff software engineer with 9+ years building large-scale web applications, strong leadership and mentoring capabilities, and deep expertise in multiple languages and modern developer tools. They should be comfortable shaping the technical roadmap and driving cross-team initiatives for scalable, reliable software.

Must-Have Skills

9+ years experience in Software EngineeringComputer Scienceor related technical discipline with proven production software coding experience in languages including CC++C#JavaJavaScriptGoRubyRustor PythonExperience building and operating large-scale web applications serving millions of users with reliability and performanceDemonstrated ability to lead cross-team technical initiatives from problem definition through shippingTrack record of mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar

Nice-to-Have Skills

Ruby on RailsReactTypeScriptGo in productionDeep familiarity with Git internals / diff algorithmsExperience building developer tools or productivity platformsLarge-scale monolith modernizationAI-assisted development workflowsOpen source contributions

Tools & Platforms

GitGitHub CopilotRuby on RailsReactTypeScriptGo

Required Skills

CC++C#JavaJavaScriptGoRubyRustPythonarchitecturecode reviewon-call rotationsdistributed systems

Hard Skills

CC++C#JavaJavaScriptGoRubyRustPythonArchitectureCode reviewOn-call rotationsDistributed systems

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringcommunicationproblem-solvingcollaboration

Industry & Role

Industry Technology

Job Function Lead development of scalable PR and code review infrastructure for GitHub

Role Subtype Staff Software Engineer

Tech Domains Java, JavaScript, Go, Python, Ruby, Rust, C, C++, C#, React

Keywords for Your Resume

staff software engineercode reviewpull requestarchitecture briefsai agentsagent-driven developmentCopiloton-callsecurity and complianceRuby on RailsReactTypeScriptGoPythonJavaScript

Deal Breakers

Less than 9 years of software engineering experience, Lack of experience with large-scale web applications, Inability to lead cross-team initiatives

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